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COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, PETITIONER v. OMEGA, S.A. (2010)

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COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, PETITIONER v. OMEGA, S.A.
Term: 2010
Important Dates
Argued: November 8, 2010
Decided: December 13, 2010
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-4
Equally divided vote
Samuel Alito • Stephen Breyer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anthony Kennedy • John Roberts • Antonin Scalia • Sonia Sotomayor • Clarence Thomas

COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, PETITIONER v. OMEGA, S.A. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on December 13, 2010. The case was argued before the court on November 8, 2010.

In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: copyright
  • Petitioner: Wholesale trade
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 562 U.S. 40
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Equally divided vote
  • Who was the chief justice: John Roberts
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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