LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CHATTERS (1929)

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CHATTERS
	Term: 1928
Important Dates
	Argued: March 7, 1929
	Decided: April 15, 1929
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY v. CHATTERS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 15, 1929. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1929.

In a 9-0 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 Louisiana Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Railroad
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 279 U.S. 320
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: Harlan Fiske Stone

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.