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CRIDER v. ZURICH INSURANCE CO. (1965)

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CRIDER v. ZURICH INSURANCE CO.
Term: 1964
Important Dates
Argued: January 19, 1965
Decided: March 1, 1965
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Hugo Black • William Brennan • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Earl Warren • Byron White
Dissenting
Arthur Goldberg • John Harlan II • Potter Stewart

CRIDER v. ZURICH INSURANCE CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 1, 1965. The case was argued before the court on January 19, 1965.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Alabama Northern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Election of remedies: legal remedies available to injured persons or things
  • Petitioner: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 380 U.S. 39
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Douglas

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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