CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, PETITIONER (1881)

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CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, PETITIONER
Term: 1880
Important Dates
Argued: April 21, 1881
Decided: May 2, 1881
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite • William Burnham Woods

CONNECTICUT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, PETITIONER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 2, 1881. The case was argued before the court on April 21, 1881.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: extraordinary relief (e.g., mandamus, injunction)
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Court or judicial district
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 131 U.S. clxxx
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Morrison Waite

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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