Peters, Richard:

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REPORTS OF CASES ARGUED AND ADJUDGED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. JANUARY TERM, 1828...JANUARY TERM, 1829...JANUARY TERM, 1830.... The first four volumes of what eventually became a seventeen-volume set of reports of Supreme Court cases, compiled and edited by Richard Peters, Jr., the fourth official reporter of the Supreme Court. This collection includes many important decisions of the late period of the Marshall court, when the proponents of states' rights ideology on the Supreme Court began to weaken the force of Marshall's influence in cases such as Willson v. Watkins (1829); Providence Bank v. Billings (1830); and Craig v. Missouri (1830). Several important cases involving banks and insurance agencies are also included in this series of reports. Peters (1780-1848) was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1800, and is best known as the defendant in Wheaton v. Peters, the Supreme Court's first copyright case, in which his predecessor as Supreme Court reporter sued Peters for copyright infringement. Peters won the case. An important series of Supreme Court reports. Rare.

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