TOLEDO SCALE COMPANY v. COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY (1923) - Ballotpedia

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TOLEDO SCALE COMPANY v. COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY

Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: March 16, 1923
Decided: April 9, 1923
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
9-0
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • Joseph McKenna • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

TOLEDO SCALE COMPANY v. COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 9, 1923. The case was argued before the court on March 16, 1923.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

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About the case

Subject matter: Judicial Power - judicial administration: untimely filing
Petitioner: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 261 U.S. 399
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
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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