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LEAR, INC. v. ADKINS (1969)

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LEAR, INC. v. ADKINS
Term: 1968
Important Dates
Argued: November 20, 1968
Decided: June 16, 1969
Outcome
Vacated and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
William Brennan • John Harlan II • Thurgood Marshall • Potter Stewart
Concurring
Byron White
Dissenting
Hugo Black • William Douglas • Earl Warren

LEAR, INC. v. ADKINS is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on June 16, 1969. The case was argued before the court on November 20, 1968.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the California State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1960s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Warren Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
  • Petitioner: Airplane manufacturer, or manufacturer of parts of airplanes
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 395 U.S. 653
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Earl Warren
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: John Harlan II

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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