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WASHINGTON TERMINAL CO. v. BOSWELL (1943)

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WASHINGTON TERMINAL CO. v. BOSWELL
Term: 1942
Important Dates
Argued: October 19, 1942
Decided: June 14, 1943
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

WASHINGTON TERMINAL CO. v. BOSWELL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 14, 1943. The case was argued before the court on October 19, 1942.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Stone Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: -
  • Petitioner: Unidentifiable
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Unidentifiable
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 319 U.S. 732
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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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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