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BELL v. PREFERRED LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY et al.

Term: 1943
Important Dates
Argued: October 12, 1943
Decided: November 8, 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

BELL v. PREFERRED LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 8, 1943. The case was argued before the court on October 12, 1943.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alabama Middle U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - no merits: adequate non-federal grounds for decision
Petitioner: Private person
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 320 U.S. 238
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.

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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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