GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO., INC. et al. v. RAY-O-VAC COMPANY (1944) - Ballotpedia

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GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO., INC. et al. v. RAY-O-VAC COMPANY

Term: 1943
Important Dates
Argued: February 2, 1944
Decided: February 28, 1944
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
5-4
Majority
Felix Frankfurter • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts • Wiley Rutledge • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Robert Jackson • Frank Murphy

GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO., INC. et al. v. RAY-O-VAC COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 28, 1944. The case was argued before the court on February 2, 1944.

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Eastern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Defendant
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 321 U.S. 275
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Harlan Fiske Stone
Who wrote the majority opinion: Owen Josephus Roberts

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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