AJA Blog Scoops The SCOTUSblog!!!!!!

The SCOTUSblog, http://www.scotusblog.com/, is among the most widely read and admired legal blogs in the nation. And it deserves all of the accolades. But, it has yet to report this story — perhaps because the suit has not even been served yet

Louisiana is suing national left-leaning policy group MoveOn.org in federal court, saying it violated trademark rules when it put up a billboard and commissioned television ads critical of Gov. Bobby Jindal that use the state’s tourism logo and motto.

Republican Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne has been locked in a pitched battle with the group for weeks, unsuccessfully calling for it to take down the billboard that is currently up on the I-10 coming into Baton Rouge from Port Allen.

READ DARDENNE’S COMPLAINT HERE

“We have invested millions of dollars in identifying the Louisiana: Pick Your Passion brand with all that is good about Louisiana. No group should be allowed to use the brand for its own purposes, especially if it is for partisan political posturing,” Dardenne said in a statement announcing the suit.

If no one “gives,” this case is sure to end up before the United States Supreme Court.  For all of the First Amendment aficionados, this is a case worth following.

 

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