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ATLANTIC REFINING CO. v. MOLLER

Term: 1943
Important Dates
Argued: December 7, 1943
Decided: December 20, 1943
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone

ATLANTIC REFINING CO. v. MOLLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 20, 1943. The case was argued before the court on December 7, 1943.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Eastern 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: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 320 U.S. 462
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: Hugo Black

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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