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WASHINGTONIAN PUBLISHING CO. v. PEARSON et al. (1939)

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Seal of the Supreme Court of the United States
WASHINGTONIAN PUBLISHING CO. v. PEARSON et al.
Term: 1938
Important Dates
Argued: December 6, 1938
Decided: January 30, 1939
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
5-3
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Pierce Butler • Charles Evans Hughes • James Clark McReynolds • Harlan Fiske Stone
Dissenting
Hugo Black • Stanley Reed • Owen Josephus Roberts

WASHINGTONIAN PUBLISHING CO. v. PEARSON et al. is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on January 30, 1939. The case was argued before the court on December 6, 1938.

In a 5-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the District Of Columbia U.S. District Court.

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: copyright
  • Petitioner: Author, copyright holder
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: Publisher, publishing company
  • Respondent state: Unknown
  • Citation: 306 U.S. 30
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: Charles Evans Hughes
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

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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