SWIFT & COMPANY v. HOCKING VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY (1917) - Ballotpedia

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SWIFT & COMPANY v. HOCKING VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY

Term: 1916
Important Dates
Argued: December 5, 1916
Decided: March 6, 1917
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Mahlon Pitney • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Willis Van Devanter

SWIFT & COMPANY v. HOCKING VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1917. The case was argued before the court on December 5, 1916.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 243 U.S. 281
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: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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