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CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. JOHNSON, TREASURER OF CALIFORNIA (1938)

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CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. JOHNSON, TREASURER OF CALIFORNIA
Term: 1937
Important Dates
Argued: January 14, 1938
Decided: January 31, 1938
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-1
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black

CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. v. JOHNSON, TREASURER OF CALIFORNIA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 1938. The case was argued before the court on January 14, 1938.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
  • Respondent state: California
  • Citation: 303 U.S. 77
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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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