Legal Opinion
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Inc. v. Rushmore Photo & Gifts, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 2, 2018No. 17-1762; 17-1869; 17-2712; 17-2731PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Since 1938, a motorcycle rally has occurred almost every August in and around the City of Sturgis, South Dakota. It was the brainchild of Clarence "Pappy" Hoel, who in the late 1930s owned the local Indian motorcycle dealership and founded a local motorcycle club, the Jackpine Gypsies.
To this day, the Jackpine Gypsies host the motorcycle races around which the rally first began. By the late 1970s, the rally was attracting several thousand people each year to the Black Hills of South Dakota, and the rallygoers had started to attract independent vendors, who sold them…
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