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NASHVILLE MILK CO. v. CARNATION COMPANY (1958)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
NASHVILLE MILK CO. v. CARNATION COMPANY
Term: 1957
Important Dates
Argued: November 21, 1957
Decided: January 20, 1958
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Tom Clark • Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II • Charles Whittaker
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Brennan • William Douglas • Earl Warren

NASHVILLE MILK CO. v. CARNATION COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 1958. The case was argued before the court on November 21, 1957.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1950s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
  • Petitioner: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 355 U.S. 373
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Harlan II

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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