COLD METAL PROCESS CO. et al. v. UNITED ENGINEERING & FOUNDRY CO. (1956)

COLD METAL PROCESS CO. et al. v. UNITED ENGINEERING & FOUNDRY CO.
	Term: 1955
Important Dates
	Argued: February 28, 1956
	Decided: June 11, 1956
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	7-2
Majority
	Hugo Black • Harold Burton • Tom Clark • William Douglas • Sherman Minton • Stanley Reed • Earl Warren
Dissenting
	Felix Frankfurter • John Harlan II

COLD METAL PROCESS CO. et al. v. UNITED ENGINEERING & FOUNDRY CO. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 11, 1956. The case was argued before the court on February 28, 1956.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania Western U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - Federal Rules of Civil Procedure including Supreme Court Rules, application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure in civil litigation, Circuit Court Rules, and state rules and admiralty rules
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Holder of a license or permit, or applicant therefor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 351 U.S. 445
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
Who wrote the majority opinion: Harold Burton

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.