CONSUMERS UNION OF U.S. v. GENERAL SIGNAL CORP.

Nos. 522, 541, Docket 83-7855.

724 F.2d 1044 (1983)

CONSUMERS UNION OF UNITED STATES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GENERAL SIGNAL CORP. and Grey Advertising, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 6, 1983.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 14, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce D. Sokler, Washington, D.C. (Charles D. Ferris, Cameron F. Kerry, and Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, Washington, D.C.; Jules P. Kirsch, and Cooper, Dunham, Clark, Griffin & Moran, New York City, Joseph M. Burke, and Davis & Gilbert, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Michael N. Pollet, New York City (Marshall Beil, Carol A. Schrager, and Karpatkin Pollet Perlmutter & Beil, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before TIMBERS, NEWMAN and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 14, 1984.*

TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

Appellants General Signal Corporation and Grey Advertising, Incorporated, appeal from a preliminary injunction, entered on October 13, 1983 in the Southern District of New York, Henry F. Werker, District Judge, enjoining their broadcast of two television commercials for Regina lightweight vacuum cleaners which quoted from an issue of CONSUMER...

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