Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Ward

Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Ward
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Ward
	Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 31, 1984; Decided March 26, 1985
Full case name	Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. et al. v. Ward et al.
Citations	470 U.S. 869 (more) 105 S.Ct. 1676; 84 L. Ed. 2d 751; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 26; 53 U.S.L.W. 4399; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 80
Case history
Prior	437 So.2d 535, Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama. 447 So.2d 142, Supreme Court of Alabama, cert denied. 466 U.S. 935, 104 S.Ct. 1905, 466 U.S. 935, US Supreme Court, probable jurisdiction noted.
Subsequent	479 So.2d 41, Supreme Court of Alabama, reversed and remanded 447 So.2d 142 in light of case. 479 So.2d 41, Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama, reversed and remanded 437 So.2d 535 in light of case.
Holding
	The promotion of domestic business within state was not legitimate state purpose, and encouraging investment of domestic assets and securities in discriminatory manner served no legitimate state purpose.
Court membership
	Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White; Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun; Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist; John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Powell, joined by Burger, White, Blackmun, Stevens
Dissent	O'Connor, joined by Brennan, Marshall, Rehnquist
Laws applied
	U.S. Const. Art. IV, § 2, cl. 1

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Ward, 470 U.S. 869 (1985), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state cannot tax out-of-state insurance companies at a greater rate than domestic insurance companies under the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article Four of the United States Constitution.^[1]

Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Ward
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 31, 1984 Decided March 26, 1985
Full case name	Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. et al. v. Ward et al.
Citations	470 U.S. 869 (more) 105 S.Ct. 1676; 84 L. Ed. 2d 751; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 26; 53 U.S.L.W. 4399; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 80
Case history
Prior	437 So.2d 535, Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama. 447 So.2d 142, Supreme Court of Alabama, cert denied. 466 U.S. 935, 104 S.Ct. 1905, 466 U.S. 935, US Supreme Court, probable jurisdiction noted.
Subsequent	479 So.2d 41, Supreme Court of Alabama, reversed and remanded 447 So.2d 142 in light of case. 479 So.2d 41, Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama, reversed and remanded 437 So.2d 535 in light of case.
Holding
The promotion of domestic business within state was not legitimate state purpose, and encouraging investment of domestic assets and securities in discriminatory manner served no legitimate state purpose.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Powell, joined by Burger, White, Blackmun, Stevens
Dissent	O'Connor, joined by Brennan, Marshall, Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. Art. IV, § 2, cl. 1