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GENERAL TALKING PICTURES CORP. v. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO. et al.

Term: 1937
Important Dates
Argued: December 13, 1937
Decided: May 2, 1938
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-1
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black

GENERAL TALKING PICTURES CORP. v. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO. et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 2, 1938. The case was argued before the court on December 13, 1937.

In a 5-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Buyer, purchaser
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 304 U.S. 175
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
Who wrote the majority opinion: Pierce Butler

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.

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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