EDGAR A. LEVY LEASING COMPANY, INC. v. SIEGEL (1922) - Ballotpedia

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EDGAR A. LEVY LEASING COMPANY, INC. v. SIEGEL

Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: January 24, 1922
Decided: March 20, 1922
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Mahlon Pitney • William Howard Taft
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Willis Van Devanter

EDGAR A. LEVY LEASING COMPANY, INC. v. SIEGEL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 20, 1922. The case was argued before the court on January 24, 1922.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York State Trial 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.

About the case

Subject matter: Civil Rights - Debtors' rights
Petitioner: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Tenant or lessee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 258 U.S. 242
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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: John Hessin Clarke

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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