SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION (1906)

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
	Term: 1905
Important Dates
	Argued: January 23, 1906
	Decided: February 26, 1906
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 26, 1906. The case was argued before the court on January 23, 1906.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the California U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of California.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Interstate Commerce Commission
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 200 U.S. 536
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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.