RICHMOND v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY (1899)

RICHMOND v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
	Term: 1898
Important Dates
	Argued: April 24, 1899
	Decided: May 22, 1899
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

RICHMOND v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 22, 1899. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1899.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Virginia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of public utilities regulation: telephone or telegraph company
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: Virginia
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 174 U.S. 761
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: John Marshall Harlan

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 conservative.