SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY (1901) - Ballotpedia

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SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY

Term: 1900
Important Dates
Argued: November 2, 1900
Decided: January 7, 1901
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. POSTAL TELEGRAPH-CABLE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1901. The case was argued before the court on November 2, 1900.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the North Carolina U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of North Carolina.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: review of non-final order
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 179 U.S. 641
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: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: David Josiah Brewer

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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