Judge rejects request to move ‘Surf City’ case
A federal judge Wednesday rejected a request from the Conference and Visitors Bureau to move a lawsuit that challenges its “Surf City USA” trademarks to Southern California.
A Santa Cruz company that runs beach shops filed suit this fall after the bureau told it to stop selling T-shirts that read “Surf City Santa Cruz California USA.”
U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney wrote that the lawsuit would stay in Northern California because the alleged trademark violations happened there and the location wouldn’t hamper the legal proceedings.
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