ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Washington Redskins general manager Bruce Allen attended his first trademark hearing Thursday. He heard lawyers and judges fuss over dictionaries, surveys and the actions of offended 18-year-olds while using terms such as "hearsay exception" and "Chevron deference," all in a debate over the team's nickname.
"There was one reference to a delay of game penalty," Allen said, "which was the football part that I understood."
As the 90-minute hearing before three judges on the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board showed, the case against the team is not as simple as declaring that the word "redskins" is a slur and therefore shouldn't have federal trademark protection. The group of five Native American petitioners has to show that the name "Washington Redskins" was disparaging to a significant population of American Indians back when the team was granted the trademarks from 1967 to 1990.
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10 comments:
I hate Lawyers, they have ruined the country...
Ob' is/was a lawyer, remember??
Such a joke. They try this all the time, and it fails. Go back to your alcohol, drugs and casinos... leave the NFL alone.
Everyone is jumping on the race card bandwagon. You know what I hate worse? The weak Americans that cave into this garbage!!
How about the Washington "PCs" or the "Red Obozos" with Red used in the traditional communist sense.
Absolutely Ridiculous. When Redskins won those SuperBowls nobody worried about the name. And now with all of the Political Correctness Crap someone got 'Offended'? Hey how about changing the name of the team to D.C RED ARMY COMRADES? And have Obamie as President of football operations. Would that be acceptable to everyone? Oh wait, someone might get offended
I say if the football team has to change their name, so does the potato!!
American Indians have officially relinquished being American by doing this.They will no longer have a place in pro sports.Every high,school,college ,and pro sport team should remove any reference to them.They will have regressed themselves back to being just plain indians,just like in the old days.That being said,is this in their best interest?
I'm white and I don't have a problem with anyone calling me white. It's much ado about nothing.
Ah go back to Cleveland
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