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CHARLES W. CASTLEMAN, A PETITIONER IN BANKRUPTCY

Term: 1843
Important Dates
Decided: February 7, 1843
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • John Catron • Peter Vivian Daniel • John McLean • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

CHARLES W. CASTLEMAN, A PETITIONER IN BANKRUPTCY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 7, 1843.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1840s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
Petitioner: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 42 U.S. 281
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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