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BLEISTEIN v. DONALDSON LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY (1903)

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BLEISTEIN v. DONALDSON LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY |
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Term: 1902 |
Important Dates |
Argued: January 13, 1903 |
Decided: February 2, 1903 |
Outcome |
Reversed and remanded |
Vote |
7-2 |
Majority |
David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • Melville Weston Fuller • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White |
Dissenting |
John Marshall Harlan • Joseph McKenna |
BLEISTEIN v. DONALDSON LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 2, 1903. The case was argued before the court on January 13, 1903.
In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Kentucky U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Kentucky.
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About the case
- Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: copyright
- Petitioner: Author, copyright holder
- Petitioner state: Unknown
- Respondent type: Business, corporation
- Respondent state: Unknown
- Citation: 188 U.S. 239
- 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: Melville Weston Fuller
- 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.
See also
- United States Supreme Court cases and courts
- Supreme Court of the United States
- History of the Supreme Court
- United States federal courts
- Ballotpedia's Robe & Gavel newsletter
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