MACKAY RADIO & TELEGRAPH CO. v. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA (1939) - Ballotpedia

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MACKAY RADIO & TELEGRAPH CO. v. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA

Term: 1938
Important Dates
Argued: December 14, 1938
Decided: January 30, 1939
Outcome
Reversed
Vote
7-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Stanley Reed • Harlan Fiske Stone

MACKAY RADIO & TELEGRAPH CO. v. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 30, 1939. The case was argued before the court on December 14, 1938.

In a 7-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Eastern U.S. District Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1930s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Hughes Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: Radio station
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 306 U.S. 86
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
Who wrote the majority opinion: Harlan Fiske Stone

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

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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