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GORHAM COMPANY v. WHITE

Term: 1872
Important Dates
Argued: April 24, 1872
Decided: November 18, 1872
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Salmon Portland Chase • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • William Strong • Noah Haynes Swayne
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • Samuel Freeman Miller

GORHAM COMPANY v. WHITE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on November 18, 1872. The case was argued before the court on April 24, 1872.

In a 5-3 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 York U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of New York.

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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: 81 U.S. 511
How the court took jurisdiction: Writ of error
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Salmon Portland Chase
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Strong

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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