TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR, INC. v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD (1949)

TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR, INC. v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD
	Term: 1948
Important Dates
	Argued: February 8, 1949
	Decided: April 18, 1949
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	6-2
Majority
	Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
	Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR, INC. v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 18, 1949. The case was argued before the court on February 8, 1949.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation: airline
Petitioner: Airline
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Civil Aeronautics Board
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 336 U.S. 601
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: William Douglas

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 liberal.