FEIST PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE CO., INC. (1991) - Ballotpedia

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FEIST PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE CO., INC.

Term: 1990
Important Dates
Argued: January 9, 1991
Decided: March 27, 1991
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Anthony Kennedy • Thurgood Marshall • Sandra Day O'Connor • William Rehnquist • Antonin Scalia • David Souter • John Paul Stevens • Byron White
Concurring
Harry Blackmun

FEIST PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. RURAL TELEPHONE SERVICE CO., INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 27, 1991. The case was argued before the court on January 9, 1991.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kansas U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: copyright
Petitioner: Publisher, publishing company
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 499 U.S. 340
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Rehnquist
Who wrote the majority opinion: Sandra Day O'Connor

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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