JOHN SWIFT v. GEORGE W. TYSON (1842)

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JOHN SWIFT v. GEORGE W. TYSON
Term: 1842
Important Dates
Decided: January 25, 1842
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Henry Baldwin • Peter Vivian Daniel • John McKinley • John McLean • Joseph Story • Roger Brooke Taney • Smith Thompson • James Moore Wayne
Concurring
John Catron

JOHN SWIFT v. GEORGE W. TYSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 25, 1842.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the New York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state legislation or regulation. cf. state regulation of business. rarely involves union activity. Does not involve constitutional interpretation unless the Court says it does.
  • Petitioner: Creditor, including institution appearing as such; e.g., a finance company
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Debtor
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 41 U.S. 1
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Joseph Story

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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