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EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES v. BROWN

Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: January 13, 1909
Decided: March 1, 1909
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • William Henry Moody • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES v. BROWN is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 1, 1909. The case was argued before the court on January 13, 1909.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

Subject matter: Private Action - Commercial transactions
Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 213 U.S. 25
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Rufus Wheeler Peckham

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 unspecifiable.

See also

External links

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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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