TEXTILE MACHINE WORKS v. LOUIS HIRSCH TEXTILE MACHINES, INC. (1938) - Ballotpedia

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TEXTILE MACHINE WORKS v. LOUIS HIRSCH TEXTILE MACHINES, INC.

Term: 1937
Important Dates
Argued: November 19, 1937
Decided: January 3, 1938
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Hugo Black • Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland

TEXTILE MACHINE WORKS v. LOUIS HIRSCH TEXTILE MACHINES, INC. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 3, 1938. The case was argued before the court on November 19, 1937.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the New York Southern 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: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Manufacturer
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 302 U.S. 490
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 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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