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ASGROW SEED COMPANY v. DENNY WINTERBOER AND BECKY WINTERBOER, DBA DEEBEES (1995)

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ASGROW SEED COMPANY v. DENNY WINTERBOER AND BECKY WINTERBOER, DBA DEEBEES
Term: 1994
Important Dates
Argued: November 7, 1994
Decided: January 18, 1995
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-1
Majority
Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • Clarence Thomas
Dissenting
John Paul Stevens

ASGROW SEED COMPANY v. DENNY WINTERBOER AND BECKY WINTERBOER, DBA DEEBEES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 18, 1995. The case was argued before the court on November 7, 1994.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Iowa Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Food, meat packing, or processing company, stockyard
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Farmer, farm worker, or farm organization
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 513 U.S. 179
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Antonin Scalia

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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