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COMMERCIAL CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY v. CONSOLIDATED STONE COMPANY (1929)

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COMMERCIAL CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY v. CONSOLIDATED STONE COMPANY
Term: 1928
Important Dates
Argued: November 27, 1928
Decided: January 2, 1929
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

COMMERCIAL CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY v. CONSOLIDATED STONE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 2, 1929. The case was argued before the court on November 27, 1928.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Ohio Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - Venue
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 278 U.S. 177
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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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