UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. (1947) - Ballotpedia

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UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL.

Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: April 8, 1947
Decided: June 23, 1947
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson
Concurring
Felix Frankfurter
Dissenting
Robert Jackson

UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 23, 1947. The case was argued before the court on April 8, 1947.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California California Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Oil company, or natural gas producer
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 332 U.S. 301
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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 conservative.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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