POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA FIG NUT COMPANY (1927) - Ballotpedia

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POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA FIG NUT COMPANY

Term: 1926
Important Dates
Decided: January 3, 1927
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY v. CALIFORNIA FIG NUT COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1927.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case. The case originated from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: trademark
Petitioner: Business, corporation
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 272 U.S. 693
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Howard Taft

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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