ST. LOUIS & O'FALLON RAILWAY COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. (1929) - Ballotpedia

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ST. LOUIS & O'FALLON RAILWAY COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

Term: 1928
Important Dates
Argued: January 3, 1929
Decided: May 20, 1929
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-3
Majority
James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Harlan Fiske Stone

ST. LOUIS & O'FALLON RAILWAY COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 20, 1929. The case was argued before the court on January 3, 1929.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Deportation (cf. immigration and naturalization)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 279 U.S. 461
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: James Clark McReynolds

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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