SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE v. CENTRAL ROIG REFINING CO. ET AL. (1950)

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE v. CENTRAL ROIG REFINING CO. ET AL.
	Term: 1949
Important Dates
	Argued: October 17, 1949
	Decided: February 6, 1950
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	7-1
Majority
	Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
	Hugo Black

SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE v. CENTRAL ROIG REFINING CO. ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 6, 1950. The case was argued before the court on October 17, 1949.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Judicial review of administrative agency's or administrative official's actions and procedures
Petitioner: Department or Secretary of Agriculture
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 338 U.S. 604
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: Felix Frankfurter

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.