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UNITED STATES v. HUTCHESON et al. (1941)

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UNITED STATES v. HUTCHESON et al.
Term: 1940
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1940
Decided: February 3, 1941
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed
Concurring
Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Charles Evans Hughes • Owen Josephus Roberts

UNITED STATES v. HUTCHESON et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 3, 1941. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1940.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Missouri Eastern 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 Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Unions - Union antitrust: legality of anticompetitive union activity
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 312 U.S. 219
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Felix Frankfurter

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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