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· 1/22/1990

Mitchelson v. Kemmerer Coal Co.

Citations

  • 493 U.S. 1052
  • 110 S. Ct. 858

How courts have described this case

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

  • defining puffing as advertising that is “not deceptive for no one would rely on its exaggerated claims”
  • 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
  • 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

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