KING v. ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS OF AMERICA (1948) - Ballotpedia

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KING v. ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS OF AMERICA

Term: 1947
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1947
Decided: March 8, 1948
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Frederick Vinson

KING v. ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS OF AMERICA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 8, 1948. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1947.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: jurisdiction or authority of federal district courts or territorial courts
Petitioner: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 333 U.S. 153
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: Frederick Vinson

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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