Eric Balderas v. the State of Texas

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• holding that a plaintiff was not barred from seeking injunctive relief due to unclean hands because the defendant had not shown that the plaintiff's behavior \constitute[d] an unconscientious or inequitable attitude towards its adversary\
• stating that “in passing off cases ... the wrong consists in fraudulently representing by word or act that defendant’s goods are those of plaintiff’
• finding news items inappropriate subjects for copyright protection, but allowing for a claim of unfair competition
• affirming a lower appellate court’s ruling granting an injunction “against any bodily taking of the words or substance of complainant’s news until its commercial value as news had passed away ” (emphasis added)
• finding AP would otherwise be deprived of revenues, which would adversely impact AP’s incentive to gather news
• affirming the grant of a preliminary injunction barring International News Service from copying or paraphrasing articles published by the Associated Press in East Coast newspapers and publishing them in West Coast Newspapers

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