WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. POSTON (1921) - Ballotpedia

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WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. POSTON

Term: 1920
Important Dates
Argued: October 20, 1920
Decided: June 6, 1921
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY v. POSTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 6, 1921. The case was argued before the court on October 20, 1920.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina State Trial 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: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 256 U.S. 662
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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