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MORRIS & COMPANY et al. v. SKANDINAVIA INSURANCE COMPANY (1929)

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MORRIS & COMPANY et al. v. SKANDINAVIA INSURANCE COMPANY
Term: 1928
Important Dates
Argued: March 7, 1929
Decided: May 13, 1929
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
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

MORRIS & COMPANY et al. v. SKANDINAVIA INSURANCE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 13, 1929. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1929.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Mississippi Southern 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: Due Process - Due process: jurisdiction (jurisdiction over non-resident litigants)
  • Petitioner: Business, corporation
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 279 U.S. 405
  • 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: Pierce Butler

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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