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OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA et al. v. PACIFIC EXPORT LUMBER COMPANY (1923)

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OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA et al. v. PACIFIC EXPORT LUMBER COMPANY
Term: 1922
Important Dates
Decided: January 2, 1923
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA et al. v. PACIFIC EXPORT LUMBER COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 2, 1923.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oregon U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Forest products, lumber, or logging company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 260 U.S. 490
  • 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: 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 unspecifiable.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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