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MORRIS v. JONES, DIRECTOR OF INSURANCE (1947)

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MORRIS v. JONES, DIRECTOR OF INSURANCE
Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: December 9, 1946
Decided: January 20, 1947
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harold Burton • William Douglas • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Felix Frankfurter • Wiley Rutledge

MORRIS v. JONES, DIRECTOR OF INSURANCE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 20, 1947. The case was argued before the court on December 9, 1946.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1940s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Vinson Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Miscellaneous interstate relations conflict
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 329 U.S. 545
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Frederick Vinson
  • 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 unspecifiable.

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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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