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Supreme Court Takes Jack Daniels Trademark Case with Major Free Speech Implications

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He was charged (and later acquitted) of a felony under an Ohio law prohibiting the use of a computer to “disrupt” or “interrupt” police functions. The district court a accepted that VIP carried its burden that this was an expressive work, which seems unassailable. Dr. Seuss Enters., ComicMix LLC, 983 F.3d 3d 443, 462 (9th Cir.

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