STANDARD VARNISH WORKS v. STEAMSHIP BRIS (1919)

STANDARD VARNISH WORKS v. STEAMSHIP BRIS
	Term: 1918
Important Dates
	Argued: December 13, 1918
	Decided: January 13, 1919
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
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

STANDARD VARNISH WORKS v. STEAMSHIP BRIS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 13, 1919. The case was argued before the court on December 13, 1918.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Federal and some few state regulations of transportation regulation: boat
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Owner, landlord, or claimant to ownership, fee interest, or possession of land as well as chattels
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 248 U.S. 392
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Joseph McKenna

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.