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LUMBER UNDERWRITERS OF NEW YORK v. RIFE

Term: 1914
Important Dates
Argued: May 13, 1915
Decided: June 1, 1915
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
William Rufus Day • Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

LUMBER UNDERWRITERS OF NEW YORK v. RIFE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 1, 1915. The case was argued before the court on May 13, 1915.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Tennessee U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Tennessee.

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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: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Forest products, lumber, or logging company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 237 U.S. 605
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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