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BOSTON STORE OF CHICAGO v. AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE COMPANY et al.

Term: 1917
Important Dates
Argued: January 16, 1918
Decided: March 4, 1918
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
7-2
Majority
John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Edward Douglass White
Concurring
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Dissenting
Oliver Wendell Holmes • Willis Van Devanter

BOSTON STORE OF CHICAGO v. AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE COMPANY et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1918. The case was argued before the court on January 16, 1918.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Manufacturer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Seller or vendor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 246 U.S. 8
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
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: Edward Douglass White

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

External links

The Supreme Court Database

Footnotes

↑ 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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