SOUTH COVINGTON & CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY (1920)

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SOUTH COVINGTON & CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY
Term: 1919
Important Dates
Argued: March 18, 1920
Decided: April 19, 1920
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
William Rufus Day • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter

SOUTH COVINGTON & CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY COMPANY v. COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 19, 1920. The case was argued before the court on March 18, 1920.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Civil Rights - Desegregation (other than as pertains to school desegregation, employment discrimination, and affirmative action)
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Kentucky
  • Citation: 252 U.S. 399
  • 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: 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 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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