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THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ALEXANDRIA v. JOHN AND JAMES H. TUCKER (1806)

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THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ALEXANDRIA v. JOHN AND JAMES H. TUCKER
Term: 1806
Important Dates
Argued: February 19, 1806
Decided: March 4, 1806
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-0
Majority
William Cushing • William Johnson Jr. • William Paterson • Bushrod Washington

THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ALEXANDRIA v. JOHN AND JAMES H. TUCKER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1806. The case was argued before the court on February 19, 1806.

In a 4-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia.

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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: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 7 U.S. 357
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Seriatim
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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