Epicenter Recognition, Inc. v. Jostens, Inc.

I respectfully dissent from my colleagues’ decision to reverse the district court’s through and reasonable decision.

In overturning the district court’s decision, my colleagues have disregarded countless findings of fact — all, of course, made by the decisionmaker best positioned to make sense of a complex morass of often-conflicting evidence. A district court’s findings of fact should not be disturbed unless we have a “definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.” Allen v. Iranon, 283 F.3d 1070, 1076 (9th Cir.2002). Indeed, “[wjhere there are *913two permissible views of the…