Pat Jordan v. Time, Incorporated, Pat Jordan v. Time, Incorporated

How courts have described this case

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• determining that the standard of review for a district court’s construction of Rule 68 is de novo because “the mandatory language of the rule leaves no room for district court discretion”
• “[T]he mandatory language of . . . [R]ule [68] leaves no room for district court discretion.”
• “Under Marek[, 473 U.S. at 9], Rule 68 ‘costs’ include attorneys’ fees when the underlying statute so prescribes. The Copyright Act so specifies.”
• “[A] copyright owner may choose between two types of damages: actual damages and profits or statutory damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).