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American Indians ask SCOTUS to cancel 'Redskins' trademark
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09/15/09 02:18 PM ET
A group of American Indians offended by the Washington Redskins' name hopes to take its complaint to the Supreme Court this year.
The case, which lawyers filed for a writ of certiorari on Tuesday, argues that the football team's name is defamatory and derogatory and petitions the justices to cancel the Redskins' trademark, first issued in the 1960s.
If the group wins, the Supreme Court's decision would overturn a previous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals, which protected the Redskins' name on the grounds that the American Indians' claim was not filed in a timely manner.
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