Harris v. Fireman's Fund American Life Insurance Co.
Harris, Administratrix v. Fireman's Fund American Life Insurance Co.
Harris v. Fireman's Fund Am. Life Ins. Co., 434 U.S. 1070 (1978)
Opinion of the Court
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C. A. 7th Cir. Certiorari denied.
How later courts describe this case
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(“damage to the goodwill and prominence of the [plaintiff’s] trademark through public confusion of it with the [respondent’s] trademark is, in itself, an irreparable injury”)
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(court specifically found that numerous instances of actual confusion were the direct result of defendant’s use of a similar mark)
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(Evans was not applicable since the “allegations of the complaint [in Clark] and testimony in the deposition show that continuing discrimination is under attack. The appellant’s action therefore is not time-barred.”)
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("Advantages built upon a deliberately plagiarized make-up do not seem to us to give the borrower any standing to complain that his vested interests will be disturbed.", quoting My-T Fine Corp. v. Samuels, 69 F.2d 76, 78 (2d Cir.1934))
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(denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment was not reviewable)
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