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Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse
This case arose out of the Patent and Trademark Office’s decision to cancel the registration of the Washington football team’s trademark, “Redskins.” A federal district court in Northern Virginia upheld the...
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This case arose out of the Patent and Trademark Office’s decision to cancel the registration of the Washington football team’s trademark, “Redskins.” A federal district court in Northern Virginia upheld the...
D.C. Police broke down the door to Viola Briggs’s apartment in Southwest D.C. to search for marijuana. It turned out they were in the wrong apartment, but her apartment number was on the search warrant so...
This case arose in the context of the 2014 surge of Central American refugees. Filed in December 2014, it challenged the government’s policy of denying bail to asylum-seeking mothers and children for the...
We represented Iknoor Singh, a Sikh college student whose application to enlist in Army ROTC was denied because, in accordance with Sikh beliefs, he wished to maintain his articles of faith (including his...
Ms. Viscusi is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who spent a month working with Ebola patients in Liberia during the crisis as a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders. When she...
In September 2014 we joined with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 23 media entities (including The Washington Post, Gannett, NBC Universal, and National Public Radio) in filing an amicus...