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UNITED STATES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO. (1938)

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UNITED STATES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO.
Term: 1937
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1938
Decided: February 28, 1938
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

UNITED STATES v. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 28, 1938. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1938.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 303 U.S. 239
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: Pierce Butler

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.

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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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