MARCONI WIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMPANY OF AMERICA v. SIMON (1918)

MARCONI WIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMPANY OF AMERICA v. SIMON
	Term: 1917
Important Dates
	Argued: January 29, 1918
	Decided: March 4, 1918
Outcome
	Reversed and remanded
Vote
	8-1
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • John Hessin Clarke • William Rufus Day • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Mahlon Pitney • Willis Van Devanter • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
	Joseph McKenna

MARCONI WIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMPANY OF AMERICA v. SIMON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 1918. The case was argued before the court on January 29, 1918.

In an 8-1 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 New York Southern U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Bankruptcy (except in the context of priority of federal fiscal claims)
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Government contractor
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 246 U.S. 46
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Edward Douglass White
Who wrote the majority opinion: Edward Douglass White

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.