WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. CZIZEK (1924) - Ballotpedia

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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. CZIZEK

Term: 1923
Important Dates
Argued: February 26, 1924
Decided: March 10, 1924
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. CZIZEK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 10, 1924. The case was argued before the court on February 26, 1924.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Idaho U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 264 U.S. 281
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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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