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UNITED STATES v. COLUMBIA STEEL CO. ET AL. (1948)

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UNITED STATES v. COLUMBIA STEEL CO. ET AL.
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: April 29, 1948
Decided: June 7, 1948
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

UNITED STATES v. COLUMBIA STEEL CO. ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 7, 1948. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1948.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Delaware Delaware U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Mergers
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Manufacturer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 334 U.S. 495
  • 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: Stanley Reed

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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