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UNITED STATES v. ESNAULT-PELTERIE (1938)

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UNITED STATES v. ESNAULT-PELTERIE
Term: 1937
Important Dates
Argued: January 7, 1938
Decided: January 31, 1938
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
6-1
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Owen Josephus Roberts • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black

UNITED STATES v. ESNAULT-PELTERIE is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 1938. The case was argued before the court on January 7, 1938.

In a 6-1 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the U.S. Court of Claims, Court of Federal Claims.

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.

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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: 303 U.S. 26
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Per curiam (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: Unknown

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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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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