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MASON v. PARADISE IRRIGATION DISTRICT (1946)

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MASON v. PARADISE IRRIGATION DISTRICT
Term: 1945
Important Dates
Decided: January 7, 1946
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-1
Majority
Hugo Black • Harold Burton • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Felix Frankfurter

MASON v. PARADISE IRRIGATION DISTRICT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 7, 1946.

In a 7-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower 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 - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
  • Petitioner: Stockholder, shareholder, or bondholder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Bankrupt person or business, or business in reorganization
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 326 U.S. 536
  • 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: William Douglas

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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