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GRANT SMITH-PORTER SHIP COMPANY v. ROHDE

Term: 1921
Important Dates
Argued: December 7, 1920
Decided: January 3, 1922
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter
Concurring
John Hessin Clarke

GRANT SMITH-PORTER SHIP COMPANY v. ROHDE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1922. The case was argued before the court on December 7, 1920.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Oregon U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Liability, other than as in sufficiency of evidence, election of remedies, punitive damages
Petitioner: Government contractor
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Employee, or job applicant, including beneficiaries of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 257 U.S. 469
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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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