PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. LEDERER, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE (1920)

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PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. LEDERER, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE
Term: 1919
Important Dates
Argued: March 22, 1920
Decided: April 19, 1920
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. LEDERER, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 19, 1920. The case was argued before the court on March 22, 1920.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federal Taxation - federal taxation, typically under provisions of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 252 U.S. 523
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • 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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