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THE JASON (1912)
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| THE JASON |
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| Term: 1911 |
| Important Dates |
| Argued: April 18, 1912 |
| Decided: May 13, 1912 |
| Outcome |
| Certification to or from a lower court |
| Vote |
| 9-0 |
| Majority |
| William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White |
THE JASON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 13, 1912. The case was argued before the court on April 18, 1912.
The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.
For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.
About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
- Petitioner: Water transportation, stevedore
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 225 U.S. 32
- 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: 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 unspecifiable.
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