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UNITED STATES v. LINE MATERIAL CO. ET AL.

Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: April 29, 1947
Decided: March 8, 1948
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Stanley Reed
Concurring
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Frederick Vinson

UNITED STATES v. LINE MATERIAL CO. ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 8, 1948. The case was argued before the court on April 29, 1947.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Wisconsin Wisconsin Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Manufacturer
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 333 U.S. 287
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 liberal.

See also

External links

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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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