Gianna Enterprises v. Miss World (Jersey) Ltd.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting a market limited to international beauty pageants where plaintiff \made no attempt to explain\ why the product market should be so limited
• finding Miss World and Miss Universe pageants are interchangeable with other beauty pageants
• explaining that serving an unsealed and unsigned summons “may demonstrate a flagrant disregard for the rules and fails to assure the person served that the summons was in fact issued by the clerk of a court and not by the plaintiff or his attorney.”
• dismissing complaint for failure to adequately plead a relevant market where plaintiff alleged a market limited to international beauty pageants but “made no attempt to explain” why the product market should be so limited
• “Per se violations do not require a showing of deleterious impact on competition. The acts involved are considered so repugnant to the policies underlying antitrust law that they create a presumption of anticompetitive effect.”
• service of unsigned, unsealed summons “may demonstrate a flagrant disregard for the rules and fails to assure the person served that the summons was in fact issued by the clerk of a court and not by the plaintiff or his attorney”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).