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United States v. W. T. Grant Co.

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Questioned by some courts
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Citation
345 U.S. 629
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
100 of 100
Citing cases (total)
100
Treatment dates
1980
Questioned by some courts
At least one reviewed court has questioned this case’s reasoning or continued validity. No reviewed court has overruled it. The Seventh Circuit questioned the continuing validity of United States v. W. T. Grant Co. without deciding the issue. All 100 flagged citations have been read.
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That confirmed treatment is listed below. San Diego Comic Convention v. Dan Farr Productions distinguished Grant's Clayton Act injunction setting from a trademark dispute and decided the latter under the Lanham Act; it did not confine Grant's rule.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

100 later cases cite United States v. W. T. Grant Co.; 100 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Questioned

  • The Seventh Circuit raised a question about Grant's continuing validity after mootness became a constitutional doctrine, but did not decide it.

    Central Soya Co. v. Consolidated Rail Corp. · Seventh Circuit · filed

    The W. T. Grant case was in any event decided prior to the time that the mootness doctrine was accorded constitutional status, and there may be a question, which we need not decide here, as to its continuing validity.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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