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Abusing Right to Sue or Defend Justifies Fee-Shifting Under Lanham Act, Seventh Circuit Holds

By Barry Barnett on November 30, 2010

Blawgletter enjoys the writings of Richard Posner, he of the Seventh Circuit.  Last week he pounded out another work that caught our notice.  And in it he came back to a common theme — the badness, whether as plaintiff or defendant, of using a lawsuit as a tool to raise your rival's costs.

The case involved the question…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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