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PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. CHEEK

Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: March 6, 1922
Decided: June 5, 1922
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney
Dissenting
James Clark McReynolds • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. CHEEK is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 5, 1922. The case was argued before the court on March 6, 1922.

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

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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: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Retired or former employee
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 259 U.S. 530
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
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: Mahlon Pitney

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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