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UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES (1909)

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UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1908
Important Dates
Argued: April 23, 1909
Decided: May 24, 1909
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
David Josiah Brewer • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

UNITED STATES FIDELITY & GUARANTY COMPANY v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 24, 1909. The case was argued before the court on April 23, 1909.

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

For a full list of cases decided in the 1900s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Corruption, governmental or governmental regulation of other than as in campaign spending
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 214 U.S. 507
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
  • 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.

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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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