MCCOACH, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA (1917)

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MCCOACH, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA
Term: 1916
Important Dates
Argued: March 14, 1917
Decided: June 11, 1917
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-2
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna • Edward Douglass White

MCCOACH, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE, v. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 11, 1917. The case was argued before the court on March 14, 1917.

In a 6-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: Internal Revenue Service, Collector, Commissioner, or District Director of
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 244 U.S. 585
  • 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: Mahlon Pitney

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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