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WASHINGTON FIDELITY NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. v. BURTON

Term: 1932
Important Dates
Argued: October 20, 1932
Decided: November 7, 1932
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-2
Majority
Pierce Butler • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • George Sutherland • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Harlan Fiske Stone

WASHINGTON FIDELITY NATIONAL INSURANCE CO. v. BURTON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 7, 1932. The case was argued before the court on October 20, 1932.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the District of Columbia 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: Insurance company, or surety
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Heir, or beneficiary, or person so claiming to be
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 287 U.S. 97
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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: Pierce Butler

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.

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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