UNITED STATES ET AL. v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD CO. ET AL. (1948) - Ballotpedia

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UNITED STATES ET AL. v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD CO. ET AL.

Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: February 3, 1948
Decided: March 8, 1948
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Harold Burton

UNITED STATES ET AL. v. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD CO. ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 8, 1948. The case was argued before the court on February 3, 1948.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Ohio Ohio Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 333 U.S. 169
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Hugo Black

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.

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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