Franklin Pierce Law Center v. Georgetown University

Franklin Pierce Law Ctr. v. Georgetown Univ., 498 U.S. 816 (1990)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: October 1, 1990
Docket: No. 89-1866
Citations: 498 U.S. 816111 S. Ct. 58112 L. Ed. 2d 3359 U.S.L.W. 32441990 U.S. LEXIS 3882

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C. A. Fed. Cir. Certiorari denied.

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Castrol, Inc. v. Pennzoil Quaker State Co., 169 F. Supp. 2d 332 (D.N.J. 2001)
(applying a Bradley analysis and finding that new substantive provisions of § 43(a) of the Lanham Act should be applied retroactively to a pending case)

Savko v. Port Auth. of Allegheny Cnty., 800 F. Supp. 268 (W.D. Pa. 1992)
(“partially incorrect or untrue statements resulting from a failure to disclose a material fact" are actionable under § 43(a))

W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. v. Totes Inc., 788 F. Supp. 800 (D. Del. 1992)
(although the corporations involved in the suit would be public figures under the traditional Gertz analysis, the Third Circuit declined to make such a finding)

Nat'l Life Ins. v. Phillips Publ'g, Inc., 793 F. Supp. 627 (D. Maryland 1992)

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