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UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY

Term: 1896
Important Dates
Argued: November 9, 1896
Decided: May 10, 1897
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-1
Majority
David Josiah Brewer • Stephen Johnson Field • Melville Weston Fuller • Rufus Wheeler Peckham • George Shiras • Edward Douglass White
Dissenting
John Marshall Harlan

UNITED STATES v. AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 10, 1897. The case was argued before the court on November 9, 1896.

In a 6-1 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 1890s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Fuller Court, click here.

About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: patent
Petitioner: United States
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 167 U.S. 224
How the court took jurisdiction: Appeal
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Melville Weston Fuller
Who wrote the majority opinion: David Josiah Brewer

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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