- Jack Daniel’s tells Supreme Court dog toy infringes its trademark
The maker of Jack Daniel’s whiskey told the Supreme Court on March 22 that a dog toy maker whose chew toy parodies a bottle of the Tennessee distiller’s product violated its trademark. The case deals with the interplay of the First Amendment and trademark protection laws and the extent to which one company may parody another’s product with its own product. The legal [...]
- Crypto exchange Coinbase asks Supreme Court to compel disgruntled customers to pursue arbitration
An attorney for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase told the Supreme Court on March 21 that current customer disputes shouldn’t move forward in the lower courts while appellate courts have yet to rule on the company’s request to divert those cases to arbitration panels. Coinbase finds itself at the Supreme Court because it prefers the arbitration provided for in user [...]
- DOJ asks SCOTUS to quickly restore ban on guns in domestic violence cases
The Biden administration formally asked the Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling that invalidated a federal law that bars people under domestic violence-related restraining orders from possessing firearms. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar filed the new petition (pdf) in United States v. Rahimi, court file 22-915, which was docketed by the Supreme Court [...]
- Supreme Court questions whether foreign trademark infringement verdict should stand
A domestic manufacturer urged the Supreme Court on March 21 to uphold a $90 million award against a foreign company for trademark infringement almost all of which took place outside the United States. The case concerns the reach of the Lanham Act of 1946, a federal law that regulates trademarks and unfair competition. The presumption in the United States is that U.S. laws [...]
