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UNITED STATES v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD CO. (1959)

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UNITED STATES v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD CO.
Term: 1959
Important Dates
Argued: October 19, 1959
Decided: November 9, 1959
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart • Earl Warren • Charles Whittaker

UNITED STATES v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 9, 1959. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1959.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
  • Petitioner: United States
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Railroad
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 361 U.S. 78
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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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