Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Stolberg v. Members of the Board of Trustees for the State Colleges
Stolberg v. Members of the Bd. of Trs. for the State Colls., 429 U.S. 897 (1976)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1976-10-18
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- presumption of validity weakened if Patent Office did not have all relevant prior art before it
- “It is basic that a state court’s construction of its own constitution is definitive and binding upon the federal court.”
- Congress is presumed to know the law and judicial interpretations of it
Citator
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C. A. 2d Cir. Certiorari denied.