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REIDER v. THOMPSON, TRUSTEE, MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.

Term: 1949
Important Dates
Argued: February 7, 1950
Decided: March 13, 1950
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter

REIDER v. THOMPSON, TRUSTEE, MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 13, 1950. The case was argued before the court on February 7, 1950.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana Louisiana Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 339 U.S. 113
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Sherman Minton

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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External links

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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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