HANKS DENTAL ASSOCIATION v. INTERNATIONAL TOOTH CROWN COMPANY (1904)

HANKS DENTAL ASSOCIATION v. INTERNATIONAL TOOTH CROWN COMPANY
	Term: 1903
Important Dates
	Argued: April 26, 1904
	Decided: May 16, 1904
Outcome
	Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	David Josiah Brewer • Henry Billings Brown • William Rufus Day • Melville Weston Fuller • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • Edward Douglass White

HANKS DENTAL ASSOCIATION v. INTERNATIONAL TOOTH CROWN COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 16, 1904. The case was argued before the court on April 26, 1904.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. 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: Judicial Power - comity primarily removal cases, civil procedure (cf. comity, criminal and First Amendment); deference to foreign judicial tribunals
Petitioner: Professional organization, business, or person
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 194 U.S. 303
How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: Melville Weston Fuller

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.