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LYON v. MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH & ACCIDENT ASSN. (1939)

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LYON v. MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH & ACCIDENT ASSN.
Term: 1938
Important Dates
Decided: January 3, 1939
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-2
Majority
Hugo Black • Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Charles Evans Hughes • Stanley Reed • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Pierce Butler • James Clark McReynolds

LYON v. MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH & ACCIDENT ASSN. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1939.

In a 5-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas Western U.S. District Court.

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.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 305 U.S. 484
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: Hugo Black

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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