HAWKINS v. BLEAKLY, AUDITOR OF THE STATE OF IOWA, et al. (1917)

HAWKINS v. BLEAKLY, AUDITOR OF THE STATE OF IOWA, et al.
	Term: 1916
Important Dates
	Argued: January 24, 1916
	Decided: March 6, 1917
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

HAWKINS v. BLEAKLY, AUDITOR OF THE STATE OF IOWA, et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 6, 1917. The case was argued before the court on January 24, 1916.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa Southern U.S. District Court.

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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: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Governmental official, or an official of an agency established under an interstate compact
Respondent state: Iowa
Citation: 243 U.S. 210
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
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: Mahlon Pitney

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.