WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN NAVIGATION COMPANY v. BALTIMORE & PHILADELPHIA STEAMBOAT COMPANY (1924)

WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN NAVIGATION COMPANY v. BALTIMORE & PHILADELPHIA STEAMBOAT COMPANY
	Term: 1923
Important Dates
	Argued: November 27, 1923
	Decided: January 28, 1924
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

WASHINGTON-SOUTHERN NAVIGATION COMPANY v. BALTIMORE & PHILADELPHIA STEAMBOAT COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 28, 1924. The case was argued before the court on November 27, 1923.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 263 U.S. 629
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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.