SOUTHERN OPERATING COMPANY v. HAYS, COUNTY CLERK OF HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE (1915) - Ballotpedia

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SOUTHERN OPERATING COMPANY v. HAYS, COUNTY CLERK OF HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE

Term: 1914
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1915
Decided: February 23, 1915
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

SOUTHERN OPERATING COMPANY v. HAYS, COUNTY CLERK OF HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1915. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1915.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
Petitioner: Unidentifiable
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
Respondent state: Tennessee
Citation: 236 U.S. 188
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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