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WEBB et al. v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1918
Important Dates
Argued: January 16, 1919
Decided: March 3, 1919
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
5-4
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Mahlon Pitney
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

WEBB et al. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 3, 1919. The case was argued before the court on January 16, 1919.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - federal or state consumer protection: typically under the Truth in Lending; Food, Drug and Cosmetic; and Consumer Protection Credit Acts
Petitioner: Person convicted of crime
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 249 U.S. 96
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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.

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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