Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
T. B. D. v. Florida
516 U.S. 1145
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1996-02-26
- Topic
- general
concluding that threats of violence and fighting words are proscribable because government has “valid interest” in protecting citizens both from fear of violence and violence | discussed in 30B Charles Alan Wright & Michael H. Graham, Federal Practice and Procedure § 7022, at 202 n. 1 (2000) | “[T]he application of the doctrine of equivalents rests on the sub-stantiality of the differences between the claimed and accused products or processes, assessed according to an objective standard.” | “The trial judge does not have discretion to choose whether to apply the doctrine of equivalents when the record shows no literal infringement.” | experts are “supposed to testify impartially in the sphere of their expertise”
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Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied.