WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. COMMERCIAL MILLING COMPANY (1910)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. COMMERCIAL MILLING COMPANY
	Term: 1910
Important Dates
	Argued: October 26, 1910
	Decided: November 28, 1910
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	6-1
Majority
	William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Oliver Wendell Holmes

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. COMMERCIAL MILLING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 28, 1910. The case was argued before the court on October 26, 1910.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Michigan State Trial Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - State or local government regulation, especially of business (cf. federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction, federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation)
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 218 U.S. 406
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: Joseph McKenna

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.