HART STEEL COMPANY et al. v. RAILROAD SUPPLY COMPANY (1917)

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HART STEEL COMPANY et al. v. RAILROAD SUPPLY COMPANY
Term: 1916
Important Dates
Argued: April 17, 1917
Decided: May 21, 1917
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
8-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

HART STEEL COMPANY et al. v. RAILROAD SUPPLY COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 21, 1917. The case was argued before the court on April 17, 1917.

In an 8-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Illinois Northern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: collateral estoppel or res judicata
  • Petitioner: Manufacturer
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 244 U.S. 294
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Hessin Clarke

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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