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ELIZABETH v. PAVEMENT COMPANY

Term: 1877
Important Dates
Argued: April 4, 1878
Decided: May 13, 1878
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
Joseph Bradley • Nathan Clifford • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan • Ward Hunt • Samuel Freeman Miller • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne • Morrison Waite

ELIZABETH v. PAVEMENT COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 13, 1878. The case was argued before the court on April 4, 1878.

In a 9-0 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 New Jersey U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New Jersey.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: City, town, township, village, or borough government or governmental unit
Petitioner state: New Jersey
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 97 U.S. 126
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: Joseph Bradley

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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