Lee N. Mortenson v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that, as concerns “strict liability crimes, . . . [a] defendant’s state of mind is irrelevant”
• stating that, as concerns “strict liability crimes, . . . [a] defendant’s state of mind is irrelevant”
• finding that the definition of a statutory assessment as a “penalty” controlled for purposes of insurance policy, regardless of whether the purpose of the assessment was to punish
• barring liability insurance for tax penalties for employer’s “willful” failure to pay payroll taxes
• “[T]he possibility of making an insurance policy clearer doesn’t imply that it is unclear in its present form.”
• “[T]he possibility of making an insurance policy clearer doesn’t imply that it is unclear in its present form.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).