PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. KITTANNING IRON & STEEL MANUFACTURING COMPANY (1920)

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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. KITTANNING IRON & STEEL MANUFACTURING COMPANY
Term: 1919
Important Dates
Argued: March 26, 1920
Decided: June 1, 1920
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY v. KITTANNING IRON & STEEL MANUFACTURING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1920. The case was argued before the court on March 26, 1920.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 253 U.S. 319
  • 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: 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 liberal.

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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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