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CONTINENTAL ASSURANCE CO. v. TENNESSEE (1940)

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CONTINENTAL ASSURANCE CO. v. TENNESSEE
Term: 1940
Important Dates
Decided: October 21, 1940
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

CONTINENTAL ASSURANCE CO. v. TENNESSEE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 21, 1940.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Tennessee State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, 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: State
  • Respondent state: Tennessee
  • Citation: 311 U.S. 5
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (no oral argument)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • 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.

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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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