BONE v. COMMISSIONERS OF MARION COUNTY (1919)

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BONE v. COMMISSIONERS OF MARION COUNTY
Term: 1919
Important Dates
Argued: November 11, 1919
Decided: December 15, 1919
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

BONE v. COMMISSIONERS OF MARION COUNTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 15, 1919. The case was argued before the court on November 11, 1919.

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

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Federalism - national supremacy: commodities
  • Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: County government or county governmental unit, except school district
  • Respondent state: Indiana
  • Citation: 251 U.S. 134
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: Joseph McKenna

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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