Know your vote. Take a look at your sample ballot now!

FORE RIVER SHIPBUILDING COMPANY v. HAGG (1911)

From Ballotpedia
Jump to: navigation, search

Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
FORE RIVER SHIPBUILDING COMPANY v. HAGG
Term: 1910
Important Dates
Decided: January 3, 1911
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
7-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

FORE RIVER SHIPBUILDING COMPANY v. HAGG is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1911.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

[1]

About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Physically injured person, including wrongful death, who is not an employee
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 219 U.S. 175
  • 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: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rufus Day

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

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
Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=FORE_RIVER_SHIPBUILDING_COMPANY_v._HAGG_(1911)&oldid=9491691"