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CHARLES L. WILLIAMS VS. THE SUFFOLK INSURANCE COMPANY (1839)

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CHARLES L. WILLIAMS VS. THE SUFFOLK INSURANCE COMPANY
Term: 1839
Important Dates
Decided: March 6, 1839
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • Philip Pendelton Barbour • John Catron • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne

CHARLES L. WILLIAMS VS. THE SUFFOLK INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1839.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal district courts or territorial courts
  • Petitioner: Fisherman or fishing company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 38 U.S. 415
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John McLean

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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