HOWE SCALE COMPANY v. WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT (1905) - Ballotpedia

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HOWE SCALE COMPANY v. WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT

Term: 1904
Important Dates
Argued: January 16, 1905
Decided: April 24, 1905
Outcome
Reversed
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

HOWE SCALE COMPANY v. WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 24, 1905. The case was argued before the court on January 16, 1905.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Vermont U.S. Circuit for the District of Vermont.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Antitrust (except in the context of mergers and union antitrust)
Petitioner: Manufacturer
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 198 U.S. 118
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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 liberal.

See also

External links

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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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