Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York

Railway Express Agency v. New York
Argued December 6, 1948
Decided January 31, 1949
Full case nameRailway Express Agency, Inc., et al. v. New York
Citations336 U.S. 106 (more)
69 S. Ct. 463; 93 L. Ed. 533
Case history
PriorConviction upheld by New York Court of Appeals, 297 N. Y. 703, 77 N. E. 2d 13.
Holding
A traffic regulation prohibiting advertising on vehicles in city streets did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Fred M. Vinson
Associate Justices
Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed
Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas
Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson
Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
MajorityDouglas, joined by Vinson, Black, Frankfurter, Murphy, Jackson, Rutledge, Burton
ConcurrenceJackson
ConcurrenceRutledge
Laws applied
U.S. Const., Amend. XIV

Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York, 336 U.S. 106 (1949), was a case before the United States Supreme Court.