UNION TANK LINE COMPANY v. WRIGHT, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF GEORGIA (1919)

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UNION TANK LINE COMPANY v. WRIGHT, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF GEORGIA
Term: 1918
Important Dates
Argued: January 22, 1919
Decided: March 24, 1919
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • Mahlon Pitney

UNION TANK LINE COMPANY v. WRIGHT, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF GEORGIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 24, 1919. The case was argued before the court on January 22, 1919.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: Georgia
  • Citation: 249 U.S. 275
  • 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: James Clark McReynolds

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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