CHAPMAN et al. v. WINTROATH (1920)

CHAPMAN et al. v. WINTROATH
	Term: 1919
Important Dates
	Argued: January 9, 1920
	Decided: March 1, 1920
Outcome
	Reversed
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	James Clark McReynolds

CHAPMAN et al. v. WINTROATH is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 1, 1920. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1920.

In an 8-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: untimely filing
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 252 U.S. 126
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: John Hessin Clarke

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.