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JONES et al. v. MOREHEAD

Term: 1863
Important Dates
Argued: March 14, 1864
Decided: April 4, 1864
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
10-0
Majority
John Catron • Nathan Clifford • David Davis • Stephen Johnson Field • Robert Cooper Grier • Samuel Freeman Miller • Samuel Nelson • Noah Haynes Swayne • Roger Brooke Taney • James Moore Wayne

JONES et al. v. MOREHEAD is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 4, 1864. The case was argued before the court on March 14, 1864.

In a 10-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed 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 1860s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taney Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Defendant
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 68 U.S. 155
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: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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