JORDAN v. JEWEL FOOD STORES, INC.

No. 12-1992.

743 F.3d 509 (2014)

Michael JORDAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEWEL FOOD STORES, INC. and SuperValu Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 19, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick J. Sperling , Attorney, Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Anthony R. Zeuli , Attorney, Rachel K. Zimmerman , Attorney, Merchant & Gould, Minneapolis, MN, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before FLAUM and SYKES, Circuit Judges, and RANDA, District Judge.


SYKES, Circuit Judge.

This trademark and right-of-publicity dispute pits basketball legend Michael Jordan against Jewel Food Stores, Inc., the operator of 175 Jewel-Osco supermarkets in and around Chicago. On the occasion of Jordan's induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in September 2009, Time, Inc., the publisher of Sports Illustrated, produced a special commemorative issue of Sports Illustrated Presents devoted exclusively to...

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