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MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. HUNT (1943)

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MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. HUNT
Term: 1943
Important Dates
Decided: December 20, 1943
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Concurring
Robert Jackson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. v. HUNT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 20, 1943.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Louisiana State Trial Court.

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

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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: Oil company, or natural gas producer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 320 U.S. 430
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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.

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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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