Morning Wrap: Two Bar Associations Oppose 'Slants' Trademark | Threats Case Over Abortion Clinic Revived
Two Asian American Bar Associations are siding against an Asian-American rock band that wants to register its name as "The Slants." A federal appeals court revives a civil threats case against a woman who sent a threatening letter to a doctor who planned to open an abortion clinic in Kansas. A mom throws her toddler a personal injury lawyer-themed birthday. And an appeals court upholds one of the Obama administration's major environmental regulations. This is a news roundup from ALM and other publications.
July 29, 2015 at 03:23 AM
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Trademark tiff: “In a case testing the government's authority to reject trademarks it deems disparaging, a pair of Asian American Bar Associations have sided against an Asian-American rock band attempting to register its name as The Slants,” NLJ affiliate The Recorder reports.
'True threat': A federal appeals court Tuesday revived a civil threats case against a woman who sent a hostile letter to a doctor who'd planned to open an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. “A reasonable jury could find that the letter conveyed a true threat of violence,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit said in a divided decision. Judge Bobby Baldock, writing in dissent: “In the end, [Angel] Dillard's crude rhetoric and the general preference for juries make this a tricky case. As I have demonstrated, though, the Court is on very shaky ground—in terms of precedent and factual context—when it sends this case to the jury. And shaky ground is not a desirable place to be, especially when a core First Amendment right is involved.” The woman at the center of the case said her letter was not a “true threat,” the Wichita Eagle reports.
Air care: An appeals court on Tuesday upheld one of the Obama administration's major environmental regulations that requires states to limit pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states, Reuters reports. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit court rejected several challenges to the regulation brought by coal company Peabody Energy, American Electric Power and others. But the court also said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would have to reconsider the strict goals it set in 2014 for states regarding sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions.
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