Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. v. Pacific Trading Cards, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that MLB “had to be concerned about the effect of the district court’s decision in future litigation with alleged infringers” and granting vacatur
• recognizing under Bancorp “an exception could be made even for settled cases where ‘exceptional circumstances’ counsel! ] in favor of vacatur”
• finding exceptional circumstances where “vacatur of the district court’s order and opinion was a necessary condition of settlement”
• noting, in granting vacatur, that any damage to the public interest was outweighed by the parties’ interest in ending their dispute
• granting vacatur when the patties were “locked in a dispute that they could end on a commercial basis satisfactory to both” and vacatur was “a necessary condition of settlement”
• granting vacatur of a district court's judgment to facilitate settlement where one party insisted on vacatur out of concern over future litigation and the other party could not test the merits of the district court's judgment without severe financial risk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).