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BANK OF MINDEN et al. v. CLEMENT, ADMINISTRATRIX OF CLEMENT

Term: 1920
Important Dates
Decided: April 11, 1921
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Hessin Clarke

BANK OF MINDEN et al. v. CLEMENT, ADMINISTRATRIX OF CLEMENT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 11, 1921.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana State Trial 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: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Agent, fiduciary, trustee, or executor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 256 U.S. 126
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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: James Clark McReynolds

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 conservative.

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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