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Santa's Best Craft, LLC. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

Contracts, False Advertising, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark, Remedies
In plaintiff's suit against its insurer, arising from an underlying suit against the plaintiff over its marketing of Christmas lights for copying...

In re Tobacco Cases I

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising, Remedies, Sanctions
In People's action against defendant, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, seeking to enforce a consent decree entered on a master settlement agreement...

Kleffman v. Vonage Holdings Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law, Cyberspace Law, False Advertising
In plaintiff's class action suit under section 17529.5(a)(2), which makes it unlawful to advertise in a commercial e-mail advertisement (i.e. spam)...

Pequignot v. Solo Cup Co.

False Advertising, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a licensed patent attorney's qui tam action under 35 U.S.C. section 292 alleging that defendant had falsely marked its products with expired patent...

Rule v. Fort Dodge Animal Health, Inc.

Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's putative class action suit against Weyth Corporation and its subsidiary, alleging that defendants had sold a heartworm medication for...

Fed. Trade Comm'n v. Trudeau

Civil Procedure, Communications Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, False Advertising, Sanctions
District court's summary disposition, sentencing defendant to thirty days for direct criminal contempt of court for directing his fans to send emails...

Simpson Strong-Tie Co., Inc. v. Gore

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Construction, False Advertising, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In plaintiff's action for defamation and related claims against an attorney and a law firm, arising from an advertisement placed by the defendants...

Franklin Mint Co. v. Manatt, Phelps & Phelps, LLP

False Advertising, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Probate, Trusts & Estates, Trademark
In an action for malicious prosecution against a law firm and an attorney, who had represented the executors of the estate of Diana, Princess of Wales...

PhotoMedex, Inc. v. Irwin

Drugs & Biotech, False Advertising, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action involving Lanham Act claims for misleading advertising and California state law claims for false advertising and unfair competition,...

Tiffany (NJ) Inc. v. eBay Inc.

Cyberspace Law, Evidence, False Advertising, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In an action by Tiffany Inc. against eBay based on sales of counterfeit Tiffany merchandise on eBay, alleging trademark infringement, false...