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thewayneOf course the big news is someone got indicted on a few counts of mishandling documents, but that's hardly worth talking about when we can discuss dog chew toys and nursing homes!
Jack Daniels sued a toy maker that makes parody dog chew toys, including one that largely duplicated the appearance of the very famous Jack Daniels' whiskey bottle, calling it Bad Spaniels. Jack Daniels makes lots of merchandise and claimed that the toy diminished their brand. A lower court ruled in favor of the toy maker, claiming that it was their First Amendment right under protected parody ruling. The Supreme Court, in a surprisingly unanimous ruling, said 'Nuh uh!' and overturned the lower court, citing Aqua's Barbie Girl song. I'm not kidding. Barbie Girl was quoted IN COURT.
The nursing home ruling is really good! The family of a patient sued the nursing home that a husband was in, saying that they doped him up on psychotropics, making him unable to walk or feed himself, then tried to transfer him to a state facility. The home claimed that the family couldn't sue to enforce his rights, the court ruled 7-2 'Uh-huh, they can', with - guess who? - Thomas and Alito dissenting. It's the last few paragraphs of the Jack Daniels article.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1181012952/supreme-court-jack-daniels-decision
Jack Daniels sued a toy maker that makes parody dog chew toys, including one that largely duplicated the appearance of the very famous Jack Daniels' whiskey bottle, calling it Bad Spaniels. Jack Daniels makes lots of merchandise and claimed that the toy diminished their brand. A lower court ruled in favor of the toy maker, claiming that it was their First Amendment right under protected parody ruling. The Supreme Court, in a surprisingly unanimous ruling, said 'Nuh uh!' and overturned the lower court, citing Aqua's Barbie Girl song. I'm not kidding. Barbie Girl was quoted IN COURT.
The nursing home ruling is really good! The family of a patient sued the nursing home that a husband was in, saying that they doped him up on psychotropics, making him unable to walk or feed himself, then tried to transfer him to a state facility. The home claimed that the family couldn't sue to enforce his rights, the court ruled 7-2 'Uh-huh, they can', with - guess who? - Thomas and Alito dissenting. It's the last few paragraphs of the Jack Daniels article.
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1181012952/supreme-court-jack-daniels-decision
