Isn’t the DOJ prosecuting retired Gen. David H. Petraeus instead?
Via NRO
The Department of Justice is intervening in the legal battle over the Washington Redskins’ name, although it is not officially taking a position on the name itself, according to a brief filed Friday.
The department is weighing in on the team’s appeal to last year’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruling, which called the name “disparaging” and therefore invalidated its trademark protection. The brief states that the intervention into the dispute is for the “limited purpose of defending the constitutionality” of the federal trademark statute the team is challenging.
While the DOJ’s involvement in to the case does not take a side on the controversy of the team’s name, a lawyer for Amanda Blackhorse, an American Indian woman who brought forward the original lawsuit against the name, told ThinkProgress that they were “very pleased” by the administration’s latest move. “It will be a big help,” he said.