The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in a highly technical decision on Feb. 24 that the often-reversed 9th Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong to invalidate a copyright infringement verdict that a California clothing design firm won against the gigantic Swedish fashion retailer H&M.
H&M was in the news in 2020 after it and other fashion companies announced they would no longer use cotton originating from the Xinjiang region in mainland China, after reports surfaced that the communist country uses forced Uyghur labor for cotton production. The regime denies the practice, and the Chinese Communist Party launched a propaganda campaign targeting H&M.
