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It surprised me, and it may surprise you, that there are actually four live, approved trademarks for the simple word "THE" (not counting trademarks where the word has to be in a particular font, or as part of a particular graphic, etc.). American BMX Corporation has two trademarks for &quo...

I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice. May cause drowsiness; alcohol may intensify this effect. This seems like a case where it's crucial to remember that the core of trademark law is consumer confusion. Without consumer confusion -- for example, confusion about the source of goods or service...

I see that the district court judge in Tennessee didn't get the privilege of handling this important case, since Parsons filed it in the wrong state. Off to Arkansas. (Presumably Parsons knew that it would be insta-dismissed if he filed it under 2255 in the usual way, because he previously tried and...

To be fair, Dairy Queen's hamburgers have recently swung from "meh even for fast food" to "entirely enjoyable", at least around here.

Well, it looks like the DC Circuit's version of Rule 34 works pretty much the same as everyone else's; oral argument happens unless the panel unanimously agrees that it shouldn't. So it only takes one panel member who wants to see the show. But you're right, of course; it's odd. In fact, to give fol...

It's worth updating this thread to say that the Supreme Court ultimately reversed the Fifth Circuit's stay. Meanwhile, the Eleventh Circuit upheld the great majority of a lower court's ruling that Florida's similarly-wacky social media law is unconstitutional. So Texas' law, and most of Florida's la...

From US v. Raymond McKinney in the 5th Circuit. Background: McKinney is charged with felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm. He moves in district court to suppress the evidence, and loses. He pleads guilty, reserving his right to appeal the suppression ruling, and is sentenced to time served. He appeals. ...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice. Not to be taken internally. May cause drowsiness; alcohol may intensify this effect. Consult a licensed attorney before having sex in a car. Here's a general principle of insurance law that helps to explain how this sort of thing happens. (In...

I feel bad about ragging on Patel now. He's still rapidly filing other cases in other courts, and as you can see from results like this , he's just hopelessly lost in his own weird world. Plaintiff’s 54-page Complaint contains a litany of allegations against many defendants but fails to state a cogn...

Yeah, it is peculiar that the SOL for tax returns is three years, but can be expanded to six years for a 20% understatement of income/overstatement of loss. There is no SOL for fraud. These additional SOL for underpaid taxes only apply to returns that actually pay tax. Generally, forms 1040, 1120, ...

Wow. Do you want to know the worst thing about this decision that denies relief to people who have already been denied justice due to incompetent counsel? Under current federal law, it's completely reasonable. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) puts severe, one-sided, and (IM...

Here's an interesting tax case from the Ninth Circuit that falls into both the "SERIOUS TAX BUSINESS" and "Wait, is that petitioner who I think it is?" buckets. From the Ninth Circuit docket, we have Seaview Trading, LLC, AGK Investments, LLC, Tax Matters Partner v. Commissioner ...

Still going. The parties are still wading through discovery disputes on the way to a jury trial. Judge Schofield continues to be vaguely irritated at most of the people involved, as exemplified at docket entry 336 , where she responds to a 22-page status letter from the parties with the legal equiva...

And because they've never been in a situation in which there is someone (the judge) who can shut them down instantly when they attempt to control the narrative and bend it to their preferred version of the facts. Yes. That. Absolutely. Some fraudsters have verbal gifts that would put most politicia...

Don't know if this particular person or group has appeared anywhere else, but it appears this may be a fake arbitration scheme. ADL did an article last year on this tactic, which seems to be gaining some traction: https://www.adl.org/blog/new-sovereign-citizen-bogus-arbitration-tactics-appearing-in...

That was good, but I wonder if Mr 'I'ma get this overturned before my Florida anyway' realizes that his character witness, Ms Thomas, is what really convinced the judge to impose a consecutive sentence instead of a concurrent one? My money's on "nope." (Disclaimer: I'm not an attorney of ...

Just checking in. Have the hundred million Americans died of Vaxtermination yet? I must say, the local sanitation department must be doing a really good job disposing of the corpses quickly. I haven't noticed a thing! AMERICAN MILITIA FREEDOM FORCES, [11/26/2021 9:03 PM] Folks, Listen; There are a h...

JJ is talking about Pop Tart :dance: And there's a LAWSUIT! The Complaint is 50 pages, how exciting. :snippity: Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61599895/shaw-v-inslee/ I know that I'm more-than-unfashionably late, but I'm curious about a dangling plot thread here. Although the crack le...

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/14800689/doucette-v-goodrich/ Wow. You've gotta love a case that starts with the wrong person filing the case, using a completely wrong identification number for Doucette, resulting in lots of the court's mail to Doucette getting rejected by the prison... and th...

My favorite part of the story (other than the misspelling of "negotiable") is the fiendish scheme she used to conceal her tracks. She didn't just wander into the bank and ask to open an account with her million-dollar bond. Oh, no. She first went to one bank branch and opened an account wi...

Resume18 wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 10:07 am

. . . a Tennessee nonprofit, Sheep Ministries, Inc. (Sheep)

Oh how perfect.

And yes, the opinion did indeed refer to the defendant as a "wolf in Sheep's clothing".

I don't see anything here about Marilyn Yvette Cook (aka Marilyn Yvette Powell). But it seems like she's "accomplished" enough in her "field" (Unorthodox Financial Transactions and Standard Sovcit Justifications Thereof) to at least be worth a mention. Her most recent exploit is ...

I'm very slow this morning. "What does the UCC possibly have to do with..... oh, right."

Porn sites will put very small bids on a zillion keywords, in the hope of getting included at the top of search results really cheaply. As illustrated here, sometimes those keywords result in ads that scream "Immediately close this browser and reinstall Windows" rather than "Click me....

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 5:46 pm The opinion you linked is the earlier opinion decided in 2019, not the one decided yesterday.

Gah! Edited. Thanks.