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ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO., INC. v. PETTERSON

Term: 1953
Important Dates
Argued: March 8, 1954
Decided: April 5, 1954
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren
Dissenting
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson

ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO., INC. v. PETTERSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 5, 1954. The case was argued before the court on March 8, 1954.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Washington Western 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: Water transportation, stevedore
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 347 U.S. 396
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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

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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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