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AMERICAN WELL WORKS COMPANY v. LAYNE AND BOWLER COMPANY (1916)

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AMERICAN WELL WORKS COMPANY v. LAYNE AND BOWLER COMPANY
Term: 1915
Important Dates
Argued: May 5, 1916
Decided: May 22, 1916
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
6-1
Majority
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
Joseph McKenna

AMERICAN WELL WORKS COMPANY v. LAYNE AND BOWLER COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 22, 1916. The case was argued before the court on May 5, 1916.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Arkansas Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - federal pre-emption of state court jurisdiction
  • Petitioner: Injured person or legal entity, nonphysically and non-employment related
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 241 U.S. 257
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
  • 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 conservative.

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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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