AMERICAN STEEL FOUNDRIES v. ROBERTSON, COMMISSIONER, et al. (1926) - Ballotpedia

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AMERICAN STEEL FOUNDRIES v. ROBERTSON, COMMISSIONER, et al.

Term: 1925
Important Dates
Argued: November 16, 1925
Decided: January 4, 1926
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

AMERICAN STEEL FOUNDRIES v. ROBERTSON, COMMISSIONER, et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 4, 1926. The case was argued before the court on November 16, 1925.

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

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: trademark
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Patent Office, or Commissioner of, or Board of Appeals of
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 269 U.S. 372
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: George Sutherland

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 conservative.

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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