Jury decides to strip Mongols biker gang of trademark logo
Source: Associated Press
Brian Melley, Associated Press
Updated 7:39 pm CST, Friday, January 11, 2019
LOS ANGELES (AP) A California jury decided Friday that the Mongols motorcycle gang should be stripped of its trademarked logo in a first-of-its-kind verdict, federal prosecutors said.
The jury in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana previously found Mongol Nation, the entity that owns the image of a Mongol warrior on a chopper, guilty of racketeering and conspiracy.
The verdict caps an unusual decade-long quest by prosecutors to dismantle the gang responsible for drug dealing and murder by seizing control of the trademark they said was core to the gang's identity.
Gang members were "empowered by these symbols that they wear like armor," Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Welk said.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Jury-decides-to-strip-Mongols-biker-gang-of-13527267.php
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)The club should have rights, as an individual, under the first amendment. This seems like a side-effect of "Citizens United". I'd bet the Ninth gives the club their right to wear a logo.
And then it goes to the Supreme Court. Mongols like Beer. Kavanaugh likes Beer. Squee and Donkey-Dong Doug might even be Mongols.
yardwork
(61,650 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)Polybius
(15,428 posts)Unless it's copyright infringement, you can't just strip a logo.