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Gibbons v. Ogden, law, and society in the early republic /

Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce. Decided in 1824, Gibbons v. Ogden arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cox, Thomas H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Steam power and patent law development in the Eighteenth Century
  • Origins of the Fulton-Livingston monopoly
  • Corporate negotiations
  • Defending the monopoly
  • Interstate competition
  • Personal rivalries and lawsuits
  • The road to the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Strategies and deliberations
  • The Gibbons decision and popular reaction
  • The decline of the New York steamboat monopoly.