Legal Opinion
Proctor & Gamble Co. v. Haugen
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 23, 2000No. 99-4067, 99-4090PublishedCited by 111 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
The Proctor & Gamble Company and Proctor & Gamble Distributing Company (“P & G”) appeal from a final judgment dismissing them lawsuit against parties who disseminated the rumor that P & G is a corporate agent of Satan. We decide whether the district court erred in granting summary judgment on P & G’s Lan-ham Act claim on the ground that the message — associating P & G with Lucifer — does not relate to qualities or characteristics of P & G’s products and hence falls outside the ambit of the Lanham Act. We also decide whether the district court properly dismissed for…
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