SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al. v. OLYMPIAN DREDGING COMPANY (1922)
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| SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al. v. OLYMPIAN DREDGING COMPANY |
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| Term: 1922 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: October 19, 1922 |
| Decided: November 13, 1922 |
| Outcome |
| Reversed |
| Vote |
| 9-0 |
| Majority |
| Louis Dembitz Brandeis • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter |
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY et al. v. OLYMPIAN DREDGING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 13, 1922. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1922.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Northern U.S. District Court.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
- Petitioner: Construction industry
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 260 U.S. 205
- How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
- What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
- Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
- Who wrote the majority opinion: George Sutherland
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.
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