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CARNEGIE STEEL COMPANY v. CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY (1902)

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CARNEGIE STEEL COMPANY v. CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY
Term: 1901
Important Dates
Argued: October 17, 1901
Decided: May 5, 1902
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
5-4
Majority
Henry Billings BrownHorace GrayJoseph McKennaRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge Shiras
Dissenting
David Josiah BrewerMelville Weston FullerJohn Marshall HarlanEdward Douglass White

CARNEGIE STEEL COMPANY v. CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 5, 1902. The case was argued before the court on October 17, 1901.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

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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: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 185 U.S. 403
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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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