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India high court grants interim relief to Bacardi against alleged trademark infringement

JURIST

The Delhi High Court on Friday awarded interim relief in a trademark infringement suit to Bacardi and Company Ltd , for its alcoholic beverage called BREEZER by prohibiting the defendant-company Bahety Overseas Pvt Ltd from using the mark called FREEZMIX. ” The interim injunction will remain in force until the case is resolved.

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Defamation claim allowed to proceed under TPPA.

Day on Torts

While a plaintiff faced with a TPPA petition to dismiss could not make out a prima facie case for his false light invasion of privacy or intentional infliction of emotional distress claims, his defamation claim related to an allegedly false Title IX rape complaint was allowed to proceed. M2023-00045-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Dismissal of Defamation and False Light Claim under Tennessee Public Participation Act partially reversed.

Day on Torts

Defendant filed a petition for dismissal pursuant to the TPPA, and after finding that the TPPA applied, that plaintiff was a limited-purpose public figure in the context of this action, and that plaintiff “had not established a prima facie case for actual malice,” the trial court dismissed the case. The TPPA, Tenn.

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Supreme Court affirms death penalty, with a Batson dissent

At the Lectern

The Supreme Court today affirms the death sentence in People v. The court’s opinion is authored by Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar. and California Supreme Court decisions holding it unconstitutional for an attorney to racially discriminate in peremptorily challenging prospective jurors. was ‘ “racially motivated.”

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A couple of Racial Justice Act grant-and-transfers at the Supreme Court conference

At the Lectern

Yesterday’s early Supreme Court conference was as sedate as last week’s was bustling. Last week , the court ruled on 201 matters, and there were two straight grants and three multi-justice dissents from denials of review, including two dissents with detailed separate statements.

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Supreme Court will resolve conflict about co-tenancy leasing requirements (and about punctuation?)

At the Lectern

At the Supreme Court’s Wednesday conference , a double one, actions of note included: Retail lease. The court agreed to hear JJD-HOV Elk Grove, LLC v. The appellate court disagreed with the Fifth District’s decision in Grand Prospect Partners, L.P. The court also granted review in People v. 2015) 232 Cal.App.4th

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The drop in straight grants is indeed not permanent — Part I

At the Lectern

At its conference yesterday , a double one, the Supreme Court backed up Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero’s recent pledge that a decline in straight grants would be temporary. It issued straight grant orders in five cases. We can’t remember the last time the court at one conference agreed to hear that many cases.