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CANADA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA (1900)

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CANADA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA |
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Term: 1899 |
Important Dates |
Argued: October 26, 1899 |
Decided: January 8, 1900 |
Outcome |
Reversed |
Vote |
9-0 |
Majority |
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Horace Gray • John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
CANADA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 8, 1900. The case was argued before the court on October 26, 1899.
In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern 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: Business, corporation
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 175 U.S. 609
- 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: George Shiras
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
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
- Ballotpedia's Robe & Gavel newsletter
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