UNITED STATES v. NEW YORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY (1909)

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UNITED STATES v. NEW YORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: December 16, 1908
Decided: February 23, 1909
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. NEW YORK CENTRAL AND HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 23, 1909. The case was argued before the court on December 16, 1908.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: financial (other than in fraud or internal revenue)
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 212 U.S. 509
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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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