HILLS & COMPANY, LIMITED, v. HOOVER (1911)

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HILLS & COMPANY, LIMITED, v. HOOVER
Term: 1910
Important Dates
Argued: March 15, 1911
Decided: April 3, 1911
Outcome
Certification to or from a lower court
Vote
9-0
Majority
William Rufus Day • John Marshall Harlan • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Charles Evans Hughes • Joseph Rucker Lamar • Horace Harmon Lurton • Joseph McKenna • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White

HILLS & COMPANY, LIMITED, v. HOOVER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 3, 1911. The case was argued before the court on March 15, 1911.

The U.S. Supreme Court examined the lower court's certified question. The case originated from the Pennsylvania U.S. Circuit for (all) District(s) of Pennsylvania.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1910s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the White 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: Defendant
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 220 U.S. 329
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Certification
  • 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: William Rufus Day

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.

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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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