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MAGNUM IMPORT COMPANY, INC., v. COTY (1923)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
MAGNUM IMPORT COMPANY, INC., v. COTY
Term: 1922
Important Dates
Argued: April 16, 1923
Decided: May 7, 1923
Outcome
Petition denied or appeal dismissed
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

MAGNUM IMPORT COMPANY, INC., v. COTY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on May 7, 1923. The case was argued before the court on April 16, 1923.

In a 9-0 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the case.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - Patents and copyrights: trademark
  • Petitioner: Shipper, including importer and exporter
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Inventor, patent assigner, trademark owner or holder
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 262 U.S. 159
  • 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 conservative.

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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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