FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. KLESNER (1929)

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. KLESNER
	Term: 1929
Important Dates
	Argued: April 10, 1929
	Decided: October 14, 1929
Outcome
	Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
	9-0
Majority
	Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • George Sutherland • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION v. KLESNER is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on October 14, 1929. The case was argued before the court on April 10, 1929.

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, District of Columbia Circuit (includes the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia but not the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, which has local jurisdiction).

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About the case

Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: trademark
Petitioner: Federal Trade Commission
Petitioner state: Unknown
Respondent type: Business, corporation
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 280 U.S. 19
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: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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.