Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Southern Railway Company v. United States, 222 U.S. 20 (1911), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that under the Commerce Clause, the U.S. Congress can regulate safety on intrastate rail traffic because there is a close and substantial connection to interstate traffic.Congress had required that all train cars be equipped with couplers as a safety measure. Southern Railway argued that the requirement only applied to train cars crossing state lines and not train cars that operated inside one state.. }
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- Southern_R._Co._v._United_States abstract "Southern Railway Company v. United States, 222 U.S. 20 (1911), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that under the Commerce Clause, the U.S. Congress can regulate safety on intrastate rail traffic because there is a close and substantial connection to interstate traffic.Congress had required that all train cars be equipped with couplers as a safety measure. Southern Railway argued that the requirement only applied to train cars crossing state lines and not train cars that operated inside one state.".