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STATE EX REL. ELVIS PRESLEY INTL. MEMORIAL FOUNDATION v. CROWELL

733 S.W.2d 89 (1987)

The STATE of Tennessee ex rel. The ELVIS PRESLEY INTERNATIONAL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, and The Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation, Plaintiffs and Counter-Defendants/Appellants, v. Gentry CROWELL, Secretary of State, Defendant, The Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation, Inc., Defendant/Appellee, and Elvis Presley Enterprises, Inc., Intervening Defendant and Counterclaimant/Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Middle Section, at Nashville.

April 3, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter M. Brown, Streibich & Brown, Memphis, for plaintiffs and counter-defendants/appellants.

C. Barry Ward, William R. Bradley, Jr., Glankler, Brown, Gilliland, Chase, Robinson & Raines, Memphis, for defendant/appellee.

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal involves a dispute between two not-for-profit corporations concerning their respective rights to use Elvis Presley's name as part of their corporate names. The case began when one corporation filed an unfair competition action in the Chancery Court for Davidson County to dissolve the other corporation and to prevent it from using Elvis Presley's name. Elvis Presley's estate intervened on behalf of the defendant corporation...

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