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PUERTO RICO v. RUBERT HERMANOS, INC. (1940)

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PUERTO RICO v. RUBERT HERMANOS, INC.
Term: 1939
Important Dates
Argued: March 7, 1940
Decided: March 25, 1940
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Charles Evans Hughes • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone

PUERTO RICO v. RUBERT HERMANOS, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 25, 1940. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1940.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Puerto Rico State Supreme Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Miscellaneous - executive authority vis-a-vis congress or the states
  • Petitioner: State
  • Petitioner state: Puerto Rico
  • Respondent type: Business, corporation
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 309 U.S. 543
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Felix Frankfurter

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 conservative.

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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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