State Industries, Inc. v. Mor-Flo Industries, Inc. And American Appliance Mfg. Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a district court’s findings could not constitute law of the case where the court’s decision was vacated and the court was instructed to reconsider
• awarding appellee a fixed sum to spare it and the court from additional litigation regarding the amount of attorney fees
• noting amount of sanction under Rule 38 is within our discretion
• whether willful infringement or another circumstance justifying enhanced damages is proven, the court must determine whether or not, under the totality of the circumstances, enhanced damages are warranted
• “Judges have experience in determining what are reasonable hours and reasonable fees for the work lawyers perform and may rely on that experience to set an award.”
• “this is not a case in which findings of fact were left undisturbed . . . The trial court’s subsidiary findings can hardly be the law of the case when the judgment based on those findings was ‘vacated’ and the court was explicitly directed to ‘reconsider’ its decision”

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