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PANAMA CANAL CO. v. GRACE LINE, INC., et al. (1958)

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PANAMA CANAL CO. v. GRACE LINE, INC., et al.
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: April 2, 1958
Decided: April 28, 1958
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker

PANAMA CANAL CO. v. GRACE LINE, INC., et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 28, 1958. The case was argued before the court on April 2, 1958.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Standing to sue: justiciable question
  • Petitioner: not listed among agencies in the first Administrative Action variable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 356 U.S. 309
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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.

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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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