ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY, SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION (1907) - Ballotpedia

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ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY, SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION

Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: April 22, 1907
Decided: May 27, 1907
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
David Josiah Brewer

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY, SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY v. THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 27, 1907. The case was argued before the court on April 22, 1907.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Louisiana.

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: 206 U.S. 441
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph McKenna

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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