Owner Dan Snyder has hired a District of Columbia law firm to review the Washington NFL team’s culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct.
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Read More »July 16, 2020 Comments Off on Washington NFL team hires law firm to review culture
Owner Dan Snyder has hired a District of Columbia law firm to review the Washington NFL team’s culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct.
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Read More »January 3, 2019 Comments Off on Redskins’ Reuben Foster has domestic violence charge dropped
Prosecutors have decided not to pursue a domestic violence charge against Washington Redskins linebacker Reuben Foster, though the NFL continues to review the matter.
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Three politicians in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia are teaming up across partisan lines, seeking to prevent their governments from waging a bidding war with public money to build a new stadium for the Washington Redskins. The liberal ...
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Read More »June 19, 2017 Comments Off on Why the Supreme Court gutted the Lanham Act’s disparagement clause
The Supreme Court of the United States Monday affirmed the Federal Circuit’s decision holding unconstitutional the Lanham Act’s bar on registering trademarks that disparage or bring into contempt or disrepute “any persons living or dead,” including groups, beliefs, and ...
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Read More »January 16, 2017 Comments Off on The next gig for this band: Defending its name in Supreme Court
EUGENE, Ore — The government doesn’t know what to make of the Slants, the all Asian-American, Chinatown dance-rock band at the center of this term’s most vexing Supreme Court free-speech case. One branch of the federal government has for years fought ...
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Read More »October 3, 2016 Comments Off on Supreme Court turns away Redskins appeal in trademark case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected a long-shot appeal from the Washington Redskins challenging a law that bars offensive trademarks. But the justices could still resolve the same issue in another case the court took up last week. The ...
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Read More »November 3, 2015 Comments Off on Redskins: US has approved many ‘offensive’ trademarks
RICHMOND, Va. — The Washington Redskins are defending their federal trademark registration by listing many companies with offensive names that the government has approved. Among the registered names cited by the NFL team are Take Yo Panties Off and Dago ...
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Read More »February 24, 2015 Comments Off on Canceling trademark violates free-speech rights, Redskins argue
A federal government decision to cancel the Washington Redskins' trademark because it may be disparaging infringes on free-speech rights and unfairly singles the team out, lawyers argued in court papers filed Monday.
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Read More »December 18, 2014 Comments Off on Does TV ridicule change minds on Redskins’ name?
In an episode of the crazy animated show “South Park” that aired last week, animated versions of Bill Cosby, Taylor Swift and a hologram of Kurt Cobain were featured in a show titled “The Washington Redskins Go F--- Yourselves Holiday Special.”
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Read More »November 26, 2014 Comments Off on NFL’s Redskins can sue American Indians to protect trademark
The National Football League’s Washington Redskins can sue a group of American Indians for seeking to block trademark protection for its name, which has been criticized as offensive.
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