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THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ALEXANDRIA v. WILSON

Term: 1805
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1805
Decided: March 5, 1805
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-0
Majority
Samuel Chase • William Cushing • William Johnson Jr. • William Paterson • Bushrod Washington

THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ALEXANDRIA v. WILSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 5, 1805. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1805.

In a 5-0 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. 187
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 liberal.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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