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MIDLAND NATIONAL BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS v. DAKOTA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY (1928)

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MIDLAND NATIONAL BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS v. DAKOTA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
Term: 1927
Important Dates
Argued: April 12, 1928
Decided: May 28, 1928
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

MIDLAND NATIONAL BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS v. DAKOTA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 28, 1928. The case was argued before the court on April 12, 1928.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Minnesota U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft 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: Bank, savings and loan, credit union, investment company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 277 U.S. 346
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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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