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B. B. CHEMICAL CO. v. ELLIS et al. (1942)

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B. B. CHEMICAL CO. v. ELLIS et al.
Term: 1941
Important Dates
Argued: December 10, 1941
Decided: January 5, 1942
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Hugo Black • James Byrnes • William Douglas • Felix Frankfurter • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy • Stanley Reed • Harlan Fiske Stone

B. B. CHEMICAL CO. v. ELLIS et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 5, 1942. The case was argued before the court on December 10, 1941.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Manufacturer
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 314 U.S. 495
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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 liberal.

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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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