The strange saga of a college student who launched parody brands of an outdoor clothing company appears to have come to a conclusion. The North Face and the makers of “South Butt” and “Butt Face” parody products have filed a joint consent judgment of contempt.
The filing means that the defendantsJames Winkelmann Jr., James Winkelmann Sr., and their company, Why Climb Mountainsagree that they’re in contempt of a consent injunction issued in April 2010 to settle a lawsuit The North Face brought over the “South Butt” parody line. Filed in December 2009, it garnered a lot of media attention in part because founder James Winkelmann Jr. was then a freshman biomedical engineering student at the University of Missouri.
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