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UNITED STATES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY AND WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY (1895)

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UNITED STATES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY AND WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Term: 1895
Important Dates
Argued: October 18, 1894
Decided: November 18, 1895
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY AND WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 18, 1895. The case was argued before the court on October 18, 1894.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Nebraska U.S. Circuit for the District of Nebraska.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller 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: 160 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: John Marshall Harlan

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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