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2024 term · Roberts Court · vote not recorded

Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers Inc.

604 U.S. 321

The record

Term
2024
Decided
Issue area
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Vote split
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Winning party
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Decision direction
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Chief Justice
Roberts Court
Disposition
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Docket
23-900
U.S. Reports
604 U.S. 321
S. Ct. citation
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LEXIS citation
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Opinion by
Elena Kagan

Holding

In awarding the “defendant’s profits” to the prevailing plaintiff in a trademark infringement suit under the Lanham Act, 15 U. S. C. §1117(a), a court can award only profits ascribable to the “defendant” itself.

Syllabus summary as published on the Supreme Court’s opinions list.

How the bench divided

No per-justice vote lineup was available for this case.