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GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY CO. v. SULLIVAN (1935)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY CO. v. SULLIVAN
Term: 1934
Important Dates
Argued: February 14, 1935
Decided: March 4, 1935
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY CO. v. SULLIVAN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1935. The case was argued before the court on February 14, 1935.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 294 U.S. 458
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Pierce Butler

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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