Henderson v. United States
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| Henderson v. United States | |||||||||||
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| Argued April 30, 1950 Decided June 5, 1950 |
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| The Interstate Commerce Act makes it unlawful for a railroad in interstate commerce to subject any particular person to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. | |||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Fred M. Vinson Associate Justices: Hugo Black, Stanley Forman Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson, Harold Hitz Burton, Tom C. Clark, Sherman Minton |
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| Majority by: Burton Joined by: Vinson, Black, Reed, Frankfurter, Jackson, Minton Concurrence by: Douglas Clark took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
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| Interstate Commerce Act 3 (1) | |||||||||||
Henderson v. United States, 350 U.S. 816 (1950) [1], was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States that abolished segregation in railroad dining cars.
[edit] The decision
[edit] Analysis
The Court refused to rule on the separate but equal doctrine, but the mandate of the Court eliminated the reserved tables and the curtain
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