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CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMPANY v. UNION COMPRESS COMPANY (1890)

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CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMPANY v. UNION COMPRESS COMPANY
Term: 1889
Important Dates
Decided: March 3, 1890
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Samuel BlatchfordJoseph BradleyDavid Josiah BrewerStephen Johnson FieldMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanLucius Quintus Cincinnatus LamarSamuel Freeman Miller

CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMPANY v. UNION COMPRESS COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 3, 1890.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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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: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 133 U.S. 387
  • 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: Melville Weston Fuller
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Blatchford

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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