This decision ended the brief era of state railroad regulation. Congress quickly reasserted it authority by passing the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887.
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Wabash, St. L. & Pac. R.R. v. Ill.
Iowa, 94 U. S. 155; Illinois v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway, 104 Ill. 476; Stone v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, 69 Mississippi, 607; Hardy v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; 18 Am. & Eng. Railroad Cas. 482; Stone v ...
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B.F. Mahoney: The Mystery Man Behind the Spirit of St. Louis
Louis. By Joseph D. Tekulsky Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis probably is the best known airplane in the world. The airplane's transatlantic flight brought fame to T. Claude Ryan, whose name is connected to the company that built it ...
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Plessy v. Ferguson
On May 18, 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in the Plessy v. Ferguson law case that separate-but-equal facilities on trains were constitutional. One justice, John Marshall Harlan, disagreed with the ruling and argued that separating blacks from ...
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