UNITED STATES v. RIVER ROUGE IMPROVEMENT COMPANY et al. (1926)

UNITED STATES v. RIVER ROUGE IMPROVEMENT COMPANY et al.
	Term: 1925
Important Dates
	Argued: March 10, 1924
	Decided: January 4, 1926
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

UNITED STATES v. RIVER ROUGE IMPROVEMENT COMPANY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 4, 1926. The case was argued before the court on March 10, 1924.

In a 9-0 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 Michigan Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - statutory construction of criminal laws: conspiracy (cf. subconstitutional fair procedure: conspiracy)
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 269 U.S. 411
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: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Terry Sanford

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.