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SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. KENTUCKY (1927)

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SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. KENTUCKY
Term: 1926
Important Dates
Argued: March 15, 1926
Decided: April 11, 1927
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 11, 1927. The case was argued before the court on March 15, 1926.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Due Process - Due process: takings clause, or other non-constitutional governmental taking of property
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Kentucky
  • Citation: 274 U.S. 76
  • 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: Pierce Butler

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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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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