ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS OF AMERICA v. WOLFE (1947) - Ballotpedia

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ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS OF AMERICA v. WOLFE

Term: 1946
Important Dates
Argued: February 28, 1946
Decided: June 9, 1947
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Harold Burton • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Stanley Reed • Frederick Vinson
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Frank Murphy • Wiley Rutledge

ORDER OF UNITED COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS OF AMERICA v. WOLFE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 9, 1947. The case was argued before the court on February 28, 1946.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the South Dakota 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.

About the case

Subject matter: Interstate Relations - Miscellaneous interstate relations conflict
Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 331 U.S. 586
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: Harold Burton

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.

See also

External links

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Footnotes

↑ 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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