Custom Vehicles, Inc. v. Forest River, Inc.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge, in chambers.

Custom Vehicles, the appellant in this trademark litigation, has filed a motion asking the court to strike portions of the appellee’s brief. The motion came to me during my stint as the motions judge. It is now denied — and to show that such absurd motions do not come for free, I deduct twice the length of this motion from the permissible length of the offending-party’s reply brief.

Custom Vehicles believes that its adversary’s brief contains unsupported assertions of fact. Here is the first example from the motion (underlining and italics in original):

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