A Hartford lawyer who is being sued in federal court for allegedly using the likeness of daytime TV’s “Judge Judy” in an ad for his law firm says the whole thing is a “misunderstanding.”
John Haymond, of The Haymond Law Firm, said he was “shocked to learn” that Judith Sheindlin had brought the claim. In a prepared statement, Haymond said that TV stations in New Haven and Springfield, Mass., which air the courtroom reality show, had “approached us to appear in promotional advertisements for the ‘Judge Judy Show,’” and that those ads are the subject of the lawsuit.
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