POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY v. CITY OF RICHMOND (1919) - Ballotpedia

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POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY v. CITY OF RICHMOND

Term: 1918
Important Dates
Argued: January 22, 1919
Decided: March 17, 1919
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
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

POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY v. CITY OF RICHMOND is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 17, 1919. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1919.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Respondent state: Virginia
Citation: 249 U.S. 252
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: John Hessin Clarke

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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