MISS WORLD (UK) LTD. v. MRS. AMERICA PAGEANTS

No. 87-6607.

856 F.2d 1445 (1988)

MISS WORLD (UK) LIMITED, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MRS. AMERICA PAGEANTS, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dorette S. Feit, Irell & Manella, Los Angeles, Cal., Davis & Gilbert, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ronald S. Rosen, Silverberg, Rosen, Leon & Behr, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants-appellees.

Before SNEED, KOZINSKI and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges.


SNEED, Senior Circuit Judge:

Miss World (UK) Ltd. and Miss World (Jersey) Ltd. (collectively hereinafter referred to as "Miss World Ltd.") appeal the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction against Mrs. America Pageants, Inc. and its promoters' use of the title "Mrs. of the World" in a beauty pageant. We affirm.

I.

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

Miss World Ltd. has produced beauty pageants since 1951. Unmarried women from over eighty...

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