BELL v. COMMONWEALTH TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY (1903) - Ballotpedia

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BELL v. COMMONWEALTH TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY

Term: 1902
Important Dates
Decided: April 6, 1903
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

BELL v. COMMONWEALTH TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 6, 1903.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

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About the case

Subject matter: Privacy - Freedom of Information Act and related federal or state statutes or regulations
Petitioner: Governmental employee or job applicant
Petitioner state: Pennsylvania
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 189 U.S. 131
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: David Josiah Brewer

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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