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RAILROAD COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA v. CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY (1909)

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RAILROAD COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA v. CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: October 20, 1908
Decided: February 23, 1909
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham

RAILROAD COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA v. CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1909. The case was argued before the court on October 20, 1908.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Evidence
  • Petitioner: State commission, board, committee, or authority
  • Petitioner state: Louisiana
  • Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 212 U.S. 414
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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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