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Ex parte STATE INSURANCE COMPANY (1874)

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ex parte STATE INSURANCE COMPANY
Term: 1873
Important Dates
Decided: March 3, 1874
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne

ex parte STATE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 3, 1874.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1870s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Chase Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Court or judicial district
  • Respondent state: United States
  • Citation: 85 U.S. 417
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Mandamus
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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