CAWOOD PATENT.; ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. TURRILL (1877) - Ballotpedia

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CAWOOD PATENT.; ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. TURRILL

Term: 1876
Important Dates
Argued: March 28, 1877
Decided: April 23, 1877
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-2
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Stephen Johnson Field • Noah Haynes Swayne

CAWOOD PATENT.; ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. TURRILL is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 23, 1877. The case was argued before the court on March 28, 1877.

In a 6-2 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 Illinois U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Illinois.

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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: 94 U.S. 695
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Strong

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.

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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