Skip to main content
Independent · not a government site

1948 term · Vinson Court · 9-0

Lincoln Federal Labor Union et al. v. Northwestern Iron & Metal Co. et al.

335 U.S. 525 · 69 S. Ct. 251 · 1949 U.S. LEXIS 3023

The record

Term
1948
Decided
Issue area
Unions
Vote split
9-0
Winning party
Respondent
Decision direction
Conservative
Chief Justice
Vinson Court
Disposition
Affirmed
Docket
47
U.S. Reports
335 U.S. 525
S. Ct. citation
69 S. Ct. 251
LEXIS citation
1949 U.S. LEXIS 3023

How the bench divided

M 6 majorityC 3 concurring

How each justice voted in Lincoln Federal Labor Union et al. v. Northwestern Iron & Metal Co. et al.
JusticeVote
Harold BurtonMajority
Robert H. JacksonMajority
William O. DouglasMajority
Stanley ReedMajority
Hugo BlackMajority
Fred M. VinsonMajority
Felix FrankfurterRegular concurrence
Wiley RutledgeSpecial concurrence
Frank MurphySpecial concurrence

Same issue area

Decisions the Court reached on the same question, nearest in time to this one. Unions accounts for 372 of the 9,277 decisions in this dataset.

Browse all Unions decisions →