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Clyde Armory Inc. v. FN Herstal SA

Petition for certiorari denied on April 3, 2017

Docket No. Argument Opinion Vote Author Term
16-936 N/A N/A N/A N/A OT 2016

Issue: (1) Whether a district court's refusal to permit the petitioner to amend the proposed pretrial order to assert a profits claim " thereby restoring the petitioner's right to a jury trial in the wake of the respondent's eleventh-hour withdrawal of its consent to a jury trial on all other claims " is reviewed for abuse of discretion or under the more exacting standard typically applied to orders that effectively deny the right to a jury trial; and (2) whether, under the logic of Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood " and as several lower courts have held, in conflict with several others " claims seeking a trademark infringer's profits are legal in nature and thus give rise to a Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.

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DateProceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
12/01/2016Application (16A547) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 26, 2016 to January 25, 2017, submitted to Justice Thomas.
12/06/2016Application (16A547) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until January 25, 2017.
01/25/2017Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 27, 2017)
02/27/2017Brief of respondent FN Herstal SA in opposition filed.
03/15/2017DISTRIBUTED for Conference of March 31, 2017.
03/15/2017Reply of petitioner Clyde Armory Inc. filed. (Distributed)
04/03/2017Petition DENIED.