Help us improve in just 2 minutes—share your thoughts in our reader survey.

T. I. M. E. INCORPORATED v. UNITED STATES (1959)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
T. I. M. E. INCORPORATED v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1958
Important Dates
Argued: January 20, 1959
Decided: May 18, 1959
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
William Brennan • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Charles Whittaker
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Earl Warren

T. I. M. E. INCORPORATED v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 18, 1959. The case was argued before the court on January 20, 1959.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation:truck, or motor carrier
  • Petitioner: Trucking company, or motor carrier
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 359 U.S. 464
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Harlan II

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

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=T._I._M._E._INCORPORATED_v._UNITED_STATES_(1959)&oldid=9506443"