SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. PUCKETT (1917)

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SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. PUCKETT
Term: 1916
Important Dates
Argued: April 25, 1917
Decided: June 11, 1917
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Edward Douglass White

SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. PUCKETT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 11, 1917. The case was argued before the court on April 25, 1917.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Georgia State Trial Court.

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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: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 244 U.S. 571
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Mahlon Pitney

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.

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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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