PENSACOLA TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY (1878) - Ballotpedia

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PENSACOLA TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 1877
Decided: March 25, 1878
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-2
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt

PENSACOLA TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 25, 1878. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 1877.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Florida U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Florida.

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About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: public utilities (cf. federal public utilities regulation)
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 96 U.S. 1
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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.

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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