The National Football League beat allegations that it infringed trademarks on gold Hall of Fame blazers and a shield logo, with a New York federal judge deeming the lawsuit decades late.
The complaint by heirs of former NFL Alumni Inc. head Victor Maitland amounts to a “shotgun pleading” filed 36 years after Maitland would have known of potential infringement, the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois said.
The Tuesday ruling by Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks dismissed the second-chance complaint without leaving room for the heirs to try again. He had previously dismissed the case five days after ...