ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF ARKANSAS (1910)

ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF ARKANSAS
	Term: 1909
Important Dates
	Argued: January 26, 1910
	Decided: April 4, 1910
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	6-1
Majority
	William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Melville Weston Fuller

ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF ARKANSAS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 4, 1910. The case was argued before the court on January 26, 1910.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Arkansas State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: State
Respondent state: Arkansas
Citation: 217 U.S. 136
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: Edward Douglass White

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.