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Weekly Briefs: ‘Taco Tuesday’ trademark spat resolved; Trump Group settles with Michael Cohen
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‘Taco Tuesday’ trademark deserted
Taco John’s has agreed to surrender its “Taco Tuesday” trademark after Taco Bell sought its cancellation in what it described as a “liberation” marketing campaign. Taco John’s CEO Jim Creel mentioned in an announcement “paying tens of millions of {dollars} to attorneys to defend our mark simply doesn’t really feel like the precise factor to do.” The corporate did pledge to donate $100 for every of its shops to a nonprofit supporting restaurant employees and challenged Taco Bell to do the identical. (Taco John’s announcement, Reuters, Inc.)
Michael Cohen settles charge dispute with Trump Group
Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for former President Donald Trump, has reached a confidential settlement in his charge lawsuit towards the Trump Group, attorneys informed a decide Friday. As soon as a Trump defender, Cohen alleged in congressional testimony that Trump is a racist, a con man and a thief. Cohen’s go well with claimed that the Trump Group agreed to cowl his legal professional charges for congressional hearings and investigations, but it surely stopped paying after he agreed to cooperate. (Law360, the New York Times)
Ex-ACLU authorized chief dies at 95
Melvin L. Wulf, the authorized director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1962 to 1977, has died at age 95. Earlier than Wulf took the job, the ACLU’s authorized work primarily targeted on submitting amicus briefs. Wulf pushed the group to symbolize individuals for civil liberties violations in a “widespread growth” of authorized work, in keeping with the ACLU. He argued 10 circumstances earlier than the U.S. Supreme Court docket and oversaw creation of the ACLU’s Ladies’s Rights Challenge, which was led by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (The New York Times, American Civil Liberties Union press release)
Decide’s order curbing US contact with social media is briefly stayed
The fifth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals at New Orleans has briefly blocked a federal decide’s curbs on the Biden administration’s contacts with social media. Chief U.S. District Decide Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana had blocked the contacts in a lawsuit alleging that U.S. efforts to cease misinformation was an try and suppress protected speech. The fifth Circuit plans a fast listening to to contemplate whether or not to maintain the keep in place pending enchantment. (Reuters, Politico, the fifth Circuit’s July 14 order)
Trump loses new-trial bid in sexual assault case
Senior U.S. District Decide Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request for a brand new trial within the sexual assault lawsuit by author E. Jean Carroll. Jurors had present in Could that Trump was liable for $5 million for sexually assaulting the author in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room after which defaming her by denying that it occurred. Kaplan mentioned the decision was not a “significantly inaccurate end result” and was not a “miscarriage of justice.” (Reuters, Courthouse News Service)
