Mazer et al., Doing Business as June Lamp Manufacturing Co., v. Stein et al., Doing Business as Reglor of California

Decided March 8, 1954. Stanley Forman Reed delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 228 · 347 U.S. 201 (1954) · Cited 560 times

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How the Justices voted

Decided 7–2.

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Precedents cited

Supreme Court decisions this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases in our collection link through; others are named.

• Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co. · 188 U.S. 239 (1903)
• Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony · 111 U.S. 53 (1884)
• Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. Co. · 294 U.S. 648 (1935)
• United States v. Steffens · 100 U.S. 82 (1879)
• F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Contemporary Arts, Inc. · 344 U.S. 228 (1952)
• Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · 308 U.S. 371 (1940)
• United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. · 334 U.S. 131 (1948)
• Gunning v. Cooley · 281 U.S. 90 (1930)
• Kalb v. Feuerstein · 308 U.S. 433 (1940)
• National Licorice Co. v. National Labor Relations Board · 309 U.S. 350 (1940)
• Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Wellman · 143 U.S. 339 (1892)
• Irvine v. California · 347 U.S. 128 (1954)
• Baker v. Selden · 101 U.S. 99 (1880)
• Great Northern Railway Co. v. United States · 315 U.S. 262 (1942)
• Wheaton and Donaldson v. Peters and Grigg · 33 U.S. 591 (1834)
• Fox Film Corp. v. Doyal · 286 U.S. 123 (1932)
• White-Smith Music Publishing Co. v. Apollo Co. · 209 U.S. 1 (1908)
• General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Electric Co. · 304 U.S. 175 (1938)
• Kalem Co. v. Harper Brothers · 222 U.S. 55 (1911)

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• Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. · 464 U.S. 417 (1984)
• Ker v. California · 374 U.S. 23 (1963)
• United States v. Dixon · 509 U.S. 688 (1993)
• Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enterprises · 471 U.S. 539 (1985)
• United States v. Richardson · 418 U.S. 166 (1974)
• Hankerson v. North Carolina · 432 U.S. 233 (1977)
• Andrews v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · 406 U.S. 320 (1972)
• Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. · 433 U.S. 562 (1977)
• Mayor of Philadelphia v. Educational Equality League · 415 U.S. 605 (1974)
• De Sylva v. Ballentine · 351 U.S. 570 (1956)
• Burch v. Louisiana · 441 U.S. 130 (1979)
• J. E. M. Ag Supply, Inc. v. Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. · 534 U.S. 124 (2001)
• Izumi Seimitsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha v. U. S. Philips Corp. · 510 U.S. 27 (1993)
• New York Times Co. v. Tasini · 533 U.S. 483 (2001)
• Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. · 593 U.S. 1 (2021)

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