THE TELEPHONE CASES: DOLLAR v. AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY (1888) - Ballotpedia

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THE TELEPHONE CASES: DOLLAR v. AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY

Term: 1887
Important Dates
Argued: January 24, 1887
Decided: March 19, 1888
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
4-3
Majority
Samuel Blatchford • Stanley Matthews • Samuel Freeman Miller • Morrison Waite
Dissenting
Joseph Bradley • Stephen Johnson Field • John Marshall Harlan

THE TELEPHONE CASES: DOLLAR v. AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 19, 1888. The case was argued before the court on January 24, 1887.

In a 4-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Massachusetts U.S. Circuit for the District of Massachusetts.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1880s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Waite 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: Telephone, telecommunications, or telegraph company
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 126 U.S. 1
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Morrison Waite
Who wrote the majority opinion: Samuel Freeman Miller

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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