Legal Opinion

First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Council Bluffs v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Lincoln

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided March 28, 1991No. 90-2342SIPublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

This case is about two savings and loans with similar names: First Federal Council Bluffs and First Federal Lincoln. That similarity ordinarily would not present a legal problem. For several reasons, however, in this case it does. Until 1988 there was only one First Federal in Council Bluffs, Iowa — First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Council Bluffs. That changed when First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Lincoln, Nebraska bought a defunct savings and loan in Council Bluffs. After First Federal Council Bluffs request that the new institution use a…

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