UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY v. RIEFLER (1915)

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UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY v. RIEFLER
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Argued: October 21, 1915
Decided: November 1, 1915
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-1
Majority
William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna

UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY v. RIEFLER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 1, 1915. The case was argued before the court on October 21, 1915.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Private Action - Contracts
  • Petitioner: Insurance company, or surety
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Person who guarantees another's obligations
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 239 U.S. 17
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 unspecifiable.

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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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