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BLEISTEIN v. DONALDSON LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY (1903)

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BLEISTEIN v. DONALDSON LITHOGRAPHING COMPANY
Term: 1902
Important Dates
Argued: January 13, 1903
Decided: February 2, 1903
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
7-2
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownMelville Weston FullerOliver Wendell HolmesRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall HarlanJoseph 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.

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