NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MEESE (1916) - Ballotpedia

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NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MEESE

Term: 1915
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1915
Decided: January 17, 1916
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. MEESE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 17, 1916. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1915.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 239 U.S. 614
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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