AGUILAR v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY (1943) - Ballotpedia

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AGUILAR v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY

Term: 1942
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1943
Decided: April 19, 1943
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-1
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge
Dissenting
Harlan Fiske Stone

AGUILAR v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 19, 1943. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1943.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 318 U.S. 724
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
Who wrote the majority opinion: Wiley Rutledge

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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