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UNITED STATES v. READING COMPANY et al. (1920)

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UNITED STATES v. READING COMPANY et al.
Term: 1919
Important Dates
Argued: October 10, 1916
Decided: April 26, 1920
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney
Dissenting
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. READING COMPANY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 26, 1920. The case was argued before the court on October 10, 1916.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Mergers
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 253 U.S. 26
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Hessin Clarke

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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