WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY (1922)

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY
	Term: 1921
Important Dates
	Argued: January 4, 1922
	Decided: February 27, 1922
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 27, 1922. The case was argued before the court on January 4, 1922.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of public utilities regulation: telephone or telegraph company
Petitioner: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Railroad
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 258 U.S. 13
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: William Howard Taft
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.