When the Supreme Court moved to Washington, D.C. in 1800, Dallas remained in Philadelphia, and William Cranch took over as unofficial reporter of decisions. In 1817, Congress made the Reporter of Decisions an official, salaried position, although the publication of the Reports remained a private enterprise for the reporter's personal gain. The reports themselves were the subject of an early copyright case, "Wheaton v. Peters", in which former reporter Henry Wheaton sued then current reporter Richard Peters for reprinting cases from "Wheaton's Reports" in abridged form.