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MOODIE VERSUS THE SHIP ALFRED (1796)

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MOODIE VERSUS THE SHIP ALFRED
Term: 1796
Important Dates
Argued: August 8, 1796
Decided: August 9, 1796
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-0
Majority
Samuel Chase • William Cushing • Oliver Ellsworth • James Iredell • William Paterson • James Wilson

MOODIE VERSUS THE SHIP ALFRED is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on August 9, 1796. The case was argued before the court on August 8, 1796.

In a 6-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Carolina U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1790s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Ellsworth 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: Foreign nation or instrumentality
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Water transportation, stevedore
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 3 U.S. 307
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Oliver Ellsworth
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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