NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY v. LEE, ADMINISTRATRIX OF LEE (1922) - Ballotpedia

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NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY v. LEE, ADMINISTRATRIX OF LEE

Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: October 6, 1922
Decided: October 16, 1922
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY v. LEE, ADMINISTRATRIX OF LEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 16, 1922. The case was argued before the court on October 6, 1922.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Carolina State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 260 U.S. 16
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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