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Judge Cannon permanently bars the DOJ from releasing Volume II of the Smith report. The motions were "unopposed" because no one was permitted to oppose them.

Blake Lively's company is using a trademark opposition to block a Utah entrepreneur from registering BEAUTY BY BLAKE. It's a smart strategy. It's also a legally questionable one.

Can They Just Backfill With Other Statutes? Technically, yes. Practically? Good luck. The President still has tariff authority under Section 232 and Section 301 — but those statutes require actual investigations, actual findings, and actual legal justification. You can't use a Section 301 finding ab

The 1972 Coca-Cola v. Gemini Rising case shows how trademark parody can cause illegal consumer confusion.

Trump's DOJ drops appeal of court order blocking massive UCLA settlement that would have banned diversity programs and declared transgender people don't exist.

The TTAB ruled that PISSTERINE mouthwash would confuse consumers with LISTERINE, rejecting parody as a defense to trademark infringement.

New Atlantic profile reveals Pam Bondi's pattern of calling reporters while crying to pressure them not to publish critical stories during her campaign.

...a government attorney trying to punish a Senator for saying something as simple as "don't break the law" it apparently comes off to a grand jury less like a request to indict a ham sandwich and more like the rantings of an Arby's School of Law drop out.

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