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UNITED STATES GRAIN CORPORATION v. PHILLIPS

Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: January 23, 1923
Decided: February 19, 1923
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

UNITED STATES GRAIN CORPORATION v. PHILLIPS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1923. The case was argued before the court on January 23, 1923.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - military: active duty
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: not listed among agencies in the first Administrative Action variable
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 261 U.S. 106
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: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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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