ATLANTIC TRANSPORT COMPANY OF WEST VIRGINIA v. IMBROVEK (1914)

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ATLANTIC TRANSPORT COMPANY OF WEST VIRGINIA v. IMBROVEK
Term: 1913
Important Dates
Argued: January 29, 1914
Decided: May 25, 1914
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

ATLANTIC TRANSPORT COMPANY OF WEST VIRGINIA v. IMBROVEK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 25, 1914. The case was argued before the court on January 29, 1914.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Maryland 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: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 234 U.S. 52
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Charles Evans Hughes

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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