INDIAN MOTOCYCLE CO. v. UNITED STATES (1931) - Ballotpedia

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INDIAN MOTOCYCLE CO. v. UNITED STATES

Term: 1930
Important Dates
Argued: March 5, 1930
Decided: January 5, 1931
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-2
Majority
Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Harlan Fiske Stone

INDIAN MOTOCYCLE CO. v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 5, 1931. The case was argued before the court on March 5, 1930.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: intergovernmental tax immunity
Petitioner: Taxpayer or executor of taxpayer's estate, federal only
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: United States
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 283 U.S. 570
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
Who wrote the majority opinion: Willis Van Devanter

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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