ISBRANDTSEN COMPANY, INC. v. JOHNSON (1952) - Ballotpedia

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ISBRANDTSEN COMPANY, INC. v. JOHNSON

Term: 1951
Important Dates
Argued: April 23, 1952
Decided: June 9, 1952
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Robert Jackson

ISBRANDTSEN COMPANY, INC. v. JOHNSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 9, 1952. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1952.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Eastern 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: Water transportation, stevedore
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 343 U.S. 779
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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.

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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