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SINKING-FUND CASES.; UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES (1879)

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SINKING-FUND CASES.; UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1878
Important Dates
Argued: March 19, 1879
Decided: May 5, 1879
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-3
Majority
Nathan Clifford • John Marshall Harlan • Samuel Freeman Miller • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • William Strong

SINKING-FUND CASES.; UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 5, 1879. The case was argued before the court on March 19, 1879.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite 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: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 99 U.S. 700
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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