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SARATOGA FISHING COMPANY v. J. M. MARTINAC & COMPANY AND MARCO SEATTLE INC.

Term: 1996
Important Dates
Argued: February 18, 1997
Decided: June 2, 1997
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-3
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • William Rehnquist • David Souter • John Paul Stevens
Dissenting
Sandra Day O'Connor • Antonin Scalia • Clarence Thomas

SARATOGA FISHING COMPANY v. J. M. MARTINAC & COMPANY AND MARCO SEATTLE INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 2, 1997. The case was argued before the court on February 18, 1997.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the California Southern U.S. District 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: Fisherman or fishing company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Manufacturer
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 520 U.S. 875
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
Who wrote the majority opinion: Stephen Breyer

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

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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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