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UNITED STATES v. OREGON LUMBER COMPANY et al.

Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: October 9, 1922
Decided: November 27, 1922
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
5-3
Majority
Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • William Howard Taft

UNITED STATES v. OREGON LUMBER COMPANY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 27, 1922. The case was argued before the court on October 9, 1922.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Oregon 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.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Forest products, lumber, or logging company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 260 U.S. 290
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: George Sutherland

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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