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UNICOLORS, INC. v. H&M HENNES & MAURITZ, L. P. 

THOMAS, J., dissenting 

Moreover, as the Court recognizes, the other knowledge re-
quirements in the Copyright Act are satisfied by either kind 
of knowledge.  See ante, at 6.  The Court points to no other 
Copyright  Act  provision  that  is  satisfied  by  actual 
knowledge alone.  That the Court reads §411(b)(1)(A) to be 
the lone exception is dubious.  That the Court does so with-
out permitting any other court in the country to first con-
sider the question is unwise. 

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  I  would  dismiss  the  writ  of  certiorari  as  improvidently 
granted because Unicolors has abandoned the question pre-
sented  and  instead  proposes  novel  questions  of  copyright 
law that no other court addressed before today.  I respect-
fully dissent.