STANDARD OIL CO. v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION (1951) - Ballotpedia

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STANDARD OIL CO. v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Term: 1950
Important Dates
Argued: January 9, 1950
Decided: January 8, 1951
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson

STANDARD OIL CO. v. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1951. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1950.

In a 5-3 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 U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: Oil company, or natural gas producer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Federal Trade Commission
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 340 U.S. 231
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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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