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STATEN ISLAND RAPID TRANSIT RAILWAY COMPANY v. PHOENIX INDEMNITY COMPANY (1930)

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STATEN ISLAND RAPID TRANSIT RAILWAY COMPANY v. PHOENIX INDEMNITY COMPANY
Term: 1929
Important Dates
Argued: March 7, 1930
Decided: March 17, 1930
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter

STATEN ISLAND RAPID TRANSIT RAILWAY COMPANY v. PHOENIX INDEMNITY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 17, 1930. The case was argued before the court on March 7, 1930.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York 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: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Insurance company, or surety
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 281 U.S. 98
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Charles Evans Hughes

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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