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EVANS v. JORDAN AND MOREHEAD (1815)

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EVANS v. JORDAN AND MOREHEAD
Term: 1815
Important Dates
Argued: March 2, 1815
Decided: March 4, 1815
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
6-0
Majority
Gabriel Duvall • William Johnson Jr. • Henry Brockholst Livingston • John Marshall • Joseph Story • Bushrod Washington

EVANS v. JORDAN AND MOREHEAD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1815. The case was argued before the court on March 2, 1815.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Virginia U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Virginia.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1810s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

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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: 13 U.S. 199
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Bushrod Washington

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.

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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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