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NFL Sacks Football Fan’s Effort to Trademark ‘Harbowl’
FTC Beat
Jan 30, 2013
NFL Sacks Football Fan’s Effort to Trademark ‘Harbowl’
When the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers won their NFL conference championship games, a Super Bowl matchup emerged with a great storyline — the opposing head coaches are brothers. An interesting legal question has also developed regarding the right to trademarks associated with the match-up between brothers. Last February, Roy Fox, a football fan…
A New Paradigm: Claimant Opposition to Mass Tort Bankruptcy and Needed Reform
FTC Beat
May 3, 2023
A New Paradigm: Claimant Opposition to Mass Tort Bankruptcy and Needed Reform
Congress enacted Section 524(g) of the Bankruptcy Code in 1994. That statute requires a 75% supermajority of claimants to approve a bankruptcy plan binding on future claimants and containing injunctions protecting the debtor and other third parties. The statute handed veto power to prominent plaintiff law firms. Companies facing mass tort liabilities, primarily asbestos, were…