TOLEDO NEWSPAPER COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES (1918)

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TOLEDO NEWSPAPER COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1917
Important Dates
Argued: March 7, 1918
Decided: June 10, 1918
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-2
Majority
Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes

TOLEDO NEWSPAPER COMPANY et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 10, 1918. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1918.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Contempt of court or congress
  • Petitioner: Newspaper, newsletter, journal of opinion, news service
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 247 U.S. 402
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: 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.

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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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