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WILLINKS v. HOLLINGSWORTH et al.

Term: 1821
Important Dates
Argued: February 23, 1821
Decided: March 8, 1821
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-0
Majority
Gabriel Duvall • William Johnson Jr. • Henry Brockholst Livingston • John Marshall • Joseph Story • Thomas Todd

WILLINKS v. HOLLINGSWORTH et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 8, 1821. The case was argued before the court on February 23, 1821.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Maryland U.S. Circuit for the District of Maryland.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1820s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: foreign (non-American) nongovernmental entity
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 19 U.S. 240
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
Who wrote the majority opinion: John Marshall

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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