Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Inc. v. Pussycat Cinema, Ltd. And Michael Zaffarano

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• holding that an injunction pursuant to the Lanham Act was not a prior restraint because trademark infringement implicated property rights, not speech rights
• enjoining distribution of film on ground that actresses’ uniforms infringed plaintiff's trademark
• unauthorized use of uniform of Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in pornographic film found to cause “confusion which has ‘a tendency to impugn’ ”
• “This is not a case of government censorship, but a private plaintiffs attempt to protect its property rights.”
• “It is well established that, if the design of an item is nonfunctional ..., the design may become a trademark even if the item itself is functional.”
• dilution by showing “sexually depraved film” using distinctive uniforms “almost identical” with those of plaintiffs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).