Legal Opinion
John Frederick Dryer v. National Football League
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 26, 2016No. 14-3428PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRUENDER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants John Frederick Dryer, Elvin Lamont Bethea, and Edward Alvin White played professional football in the National Football League (“NFL”). They participated in a putative class-action lawsuit in which twenty-three former NFL players sued the NFL on behalf of themselves and similarly situated former players. This suit claimed that films produced by NFL-affiliate NFL Films violated the players’ rights under the right-of-publicity laws of various states as well as their rights under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125. Twenty of those players settled their dispute…
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