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HENRY WHEATON AND ROBERT DONALDSON, APPELLANTS v. RICHARD PETERS AND JOHN GRIGG (1834)

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HENRY WHEATON AND ROBERT DONALDSON, APPELLANTS v. RICHARD PETERS AND JOHN GRIGG
Term: 1834
Important Dates
Argued: March 11, 1834
Decided: March 19, 1834
Outcome
Vacated
Vote
4-2
Majority
Gabriel Duvall • John Marshall • John McLean • Joseph Story
Dissenting
Henry Baldwin • Smith Thompson

HENRY WHEATON AND ROBERT DONALDSON, APPELLANTS v. RICHARD PETERS AND JOHN GRIGG is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 19, 1834. The case was argued before the court on March 11, 1834.

In a 4-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1830s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Marshall Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: copyright
  • Petitioner: Author, copyright holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Publisher, publishing company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 33 U.S. 591
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: John Marshall
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John McLean

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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