Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. v. Norton Company

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that courts have discretion to decline to exercise jurisdiction over claims for declaratory relief
• court abused discretion in dismissing declaratory judgment action for noninfringement when the pending interference proceeding could not “decide (or is not likely to moot
• \[T]he very terms of the Act and its subsequent interpretation by the courts have made the exercise of declaratory judgment jurisdiction discretionary.\
• suggestion that sale under threat of condemnation constituted a simple sale rather than the exercise of state’s power of eminent domain was not supported by the evidence
• “In promulgating the Declaratory Judgment Act, Congress intended to prevent avoidable damages from being incurred by a person uncertain of his rights and threatened with damage by delayed adjudication.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).