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UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL CITY LINES, INC. ET AL. (1948)

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UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL CITY LINES, INC. ET AL.
Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: April 28, 1948
Decided: June 7, 1948
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Robert Jackson
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter

UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL CITY LINES, INC. 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 28, 1948.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California California Southern 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: Judicial Power - Venue
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bus or motorized passenger transportation vehicle
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 334 U.S. 573
  • 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: Wiley Rutledge

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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