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HUBBELL v. UNITED STATES (1898)

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HUBBELL v. UNITED STATES
Term: 1897
Important Dates
Argued: April 13, 1898
Decided: May 31, 1898
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
David Josiah BrewerHenry Billings BrownMelville Weston FullerHorace GrayJohn Marshall HarlanJoseph McKennaRufus Wheeler PeckhamGeorge ShirasEdward Douglass White

HUBBELL v. UNITED STATES is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 31, 1898. The case was argued before the court on April 13, 1898.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: United States
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 171 U.S. 203
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
  • 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: Henry Billings Brown

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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