STATE OF TEXAS v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION AND RAILROAD LABOR BOARD (1922)

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STATE OF TEXAS v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION AND RAILROAD LABOR BOARD
Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: December 7, 1921
Decided: March 6, 1922
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

STATE OF TEXAS v. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION AND RAILROAD LABOR BOARD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1922. The case was argued before the court on December 7, 1921.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: Supreme Court's original jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Texas
  • Respondent type: Interstate Commerce Commission
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 258 U.S. 158
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Original
  • 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: Willis Van Devanter

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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