Legal Opinion
National Football League Properties, Inc. v. New Jersey Giants, Inc.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided May 8, 1986No. Civ. A. 84-3560PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
BARRY, District Judge.
Plaintiff, the New York Football Giants, Inc., owns and operates the New York Giants, a major league professional football team which plays all of its home games in New Jersey yet eschews a New Jersey identification as resolutely as a vampire eschews the cross. Defendant, the New Jersey Giants, Inc., which is decidedly not a major league professional football team, was created and exists solely to illegally exploit the confusion engendered by the unwillingness of the team to correlate its name with the place it calls home. The other…
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