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

UNITED STATES v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
	Term: 1895
Important Dates
	Argued: December 18, 1894
	Decided: November 18, 1895
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	8-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES v. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY 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 December 18, 1894.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of public utilities regulation: telephone or telegraph company
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 160 U.S. 53
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: 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 conservative.