Richard Peters, Jr. was born in Belmont, Pennsylvania, the son of Richard Peters, an attorney later elected as Continental Congressman from Pennsylvania. Peters, Jr. studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1800.
He was appointed as the solicitor of Philadelphia County, serving from 1822 to 1825.
Supreme Courtedit
In 1828, Peters was appointed as Reporter of Decisions for the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC. He condensed the reports of his three predecessors to have a more concise version for legal reviews. He eliminated the arguments of counsel, annotations, and other material, thereby reducing twenty-four volumes into six. His immediate predecessor Henry Wheaton sued. The Supreme Court rejected Wheaton's claim to a common law copyright in his own reports in the first landmark case in American copyright law, Wheaton v. Peters.
The Court dismissed Peters in 1843 because of the questionable "accuracy and fidelity" of his reports; in addition, he had offended several of the justices.[2]
Peters was married to Abigail Willing (1777–1841), daughter of prominent Philadelphian Thomas Willing (1731–1821). Peters died in Belmont, Pennsylvania in 1848.
Published worksedit
Reports of the United States Circuit Court, 1803-18 (1819);
Reports of the United States Supreme Court, 1828-43 (seventeen volumes, 1828–43); *Condensed Reports of Cases in the United States Supreme Court from its Organization till 1827 (six volumes, 1835)[1]
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