JEANNE FARREY, FKA JEANNE SANDERFOOT v. GERALD J. SANDERFOOT (1991) - Ballotpedia

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JEANNE FARREY, FKA JEANNE SANDERFOOT v. GERALD J. SANDERFOOT

Term: 1990
Important Dates
Argued: March 25, 1991
Decided: May 23, 1991
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Concurring
Anthony Kennedy • David Souter

JEANNE FARREY, FKA JEANNE SANDERFOOT v. GERALD J. SANDERFOOT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 23, 1991. The case was argued before the court on March 25, 1991.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Wisconsin 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: Wife, or ex-wife
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Husband, or ex-husband
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 500 U.S. 291
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
Who wrote the majority opinion: Byron White

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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