United States Second Circuit

Order preliminarily enjoining DirecTV from disseminating, in any market in which Time Warner Cable provides cable service, certain television commercials and Internet advertisements -- which included commercials featuring actors Jessica Simpson and William Shatner -- found likely to violate the Lanham Act on literal falsity grounds is vacated to the extent the district court exceeded its permissible discretion in preliminarily enjoining DIRECTV from disseminating the Internet advertisements, and to the extent there was ambiguity in the injunction on the television commercials.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/09/2007
• Published 08/09/2007

Judges

• STRAUB, Circuit Judge:, Before:  KEARSE, STRAUB, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Saul B. Shapiro, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP (Sarah E. Zgliniec, Catherine A. Williams, on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Daniel H. Bromberg, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Redwood Shores, CA (Marc L. Greenwald, Sanford I. Weisburst, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, New York, NY;  Michael E. Williams, Justin C. Griffin, A.J. Bedel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, CA;  and Margret Caruso, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant.