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SHIELDS v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD CO. (1956)

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SHIELDS v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD CO.
Term: 1955
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1956
Decided: February 27, 1956
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed

SHIELDS v. ATLANTIC COAST LINE RAILROAD CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1956. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1956.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alabama Middle U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Sufficiency of evidence: typically in the context of a jury's determination of compensation for injury or death
  • Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 350 U.S. 318
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • 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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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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