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KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. VAN ZANT (1923)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. VAN ZANT
Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: December 4, 1922
Decided: January 2, 1923
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. VAN ZANT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 2, 1923. The case was argued before the court on December 4, 1922.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Missouri State Trial 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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: public utilities (cf. federal public utilities regulation)
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 260 U.S. 459
  • 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: 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.

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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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