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THE CHICAGO JUNCTION CASE (1924)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
THE CHICAGO JUNCTION CASE
Term: 1923
Important Dates
Argued: January 24, 1924
Decided: March 3, 1924
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland

THE CHICAGO JUNCTION CASE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 3, 1924. The case was argued before the court on January 24, 1924.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed 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 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: Economic Activity - Federal or state regulation of transportation regulation: railroad
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Interstate Commerce Commission
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 264 U.S. 258
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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