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SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CLIFT

Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: November 21, 1922
Decided: December 4, 1922
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. CLIFT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 4, 1922. The case was argued before the court on November 21, 1922.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Indiana State Trial 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: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 260 U.S. 316
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: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph McKenna

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.

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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