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UNITED STATES ET AL. v. CHAMPLIN REFINING CO. (1951)
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| UNITED STATES ET AL. v. CHAMPLIN REFINING CO. |
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| Term: 1950 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: March 8, 1951 |
| Decided: May 7, 1951 |
| Outcome |
| Affirmed (includes modified) |
| Vote |
| 8-1 |
| Majority |
| Tom Clark • Robert Jackson • Sherman Minton • Frederick Vinson |
| Concurring |
| Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed |
| Dissenting |
| Hugo Black |
UNITED STATES ET AL. v. CHAMPLIN REFINING CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 7, 1951. The case was argued before the court on March 8, 1951.
In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Oklahoma Oklahoma Western U.S. District Court.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulation of transportation regulation: pipeline (cf. federal public utilities regulation: gas pipeline)
- Petitioner: United States
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Pipe line company
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 341 U.S. 290
- 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: Tom Clark
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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