Litigants: | McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. |
Arguedate: | January 2 |
Argueyear: | 1940 |
Decidedate: | January 29 |
Decideyear: | 1940 |
Fullname: | McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Company |
Usvol: | 309 |
Uspage: | 33 |
Parallelcitations: | 60 S. Ct. 388; 84 L. Ed. 565 |
Majority: | Stone |
Joinmajority: | Black, Reed, Frankfurter, Douglas, Murphy |
Dissent: | Hughes |
Joindissent: | McReynolds, Roberts |
McGoldrick v. Berwind-White Coal Mining Co., 309 U.S. 33 (1940), is United States Supreme Court case upholding the legality under the Constitution's Commerce Clause of a tax by the City of New York upon the purchase of coal by public utility and steamship companies based in New York from Berwind-White Coal Mining Company, a Pennsylvania coal company through its New York office.[1]