U.S. Supreme Court justices fret over offensive trademarks
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared concerned about allowing federal trademarks for racial slurs in a case involving an Asian-American rock band called The Slants that could impact the high-profile dispute over the name of the NFL’s Washington Redskins. The eight justices heard arguments in the Obama administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling last year that sided with the Portland-based band in its free-speech challenge to part of the 1946 law governing federal trademarks. The Redskins separately challenged the law on free speech grounds, but the Supreme Court declined to take up that case.
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