JAMES STEVENS, APPELLANT, v. ROYAL GLADDING AND ISAAC T. PROUD (1855) - Ballotpedia

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JAMES STEVENS, APPELLANT, v. ROYAL GLADDING AND ISAAC T. PROUD

Term: 1854
Important Dates
Argued: January 30, 1855
Decided: February 19, 1855
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
9-0
Majority
John Archibald Campbell • John Catron • Benjamin Robbins Curtis • Peter Vivian Daniel • Robert Cooper Grier • John McLean • Samuel Nelson • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

JAMES STEVENS, APPELLANT, v. ROYAL GLADDING AND ISAAC T. PROUD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 19, 1855. The case was argued before the court on January 30, 1855.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Rhode Island U.S. Circuit for the District of Rhode Island.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: copyright
Petitioner: Author, copyright holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Seller or vendor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 58 U.S. 447
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Roger Brooke Taney
Who wrote the majority opinion: Benjamin Robbins Curtis

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.

See also

External links

The Supreme Court Database

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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