FIDELITY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CLARK (1906) - Ballotpedia

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FIDELITY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CLARK

Term: 1906
Important Dates
Argued: October 15, 1906
Decided: October 29, 1906
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-2
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan • Edward Douglass White

FIDELITY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CLARK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 29, 1906. The case was argued before the court on October 15, 1906.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Texas U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Texas.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 203 U.S. 64
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

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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