DESIGN RESOURCES v. LEATHER INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA

No. 14-1990.

789 F.3d 495 (2015)

DESIGN RESOURCES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. LEATHER INDUSTRIES OF AMERICA; Dr. Nicholas J. Cory; Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.; Todd Wanek, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: June 18, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Raymond Neeleman , Lane Powell, PC, Seattle, Washington, for Appellant. William Andrew Copenhaver , Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Richard Dominick Milone, Jr. , Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Kristin Beneski , Lane Powell, PC, Seattle, Washington, for Appellant. Cameron Argetsinger , Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees Leather Industries of America and Dr. Nicholas J. Cory; Brent F. Powell , Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellees Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. and Todd Wanek.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge DUNCAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge NIEMEYER and Judge THACKER joined.


Plaintiff-Appellant Design Resources, Inc. ("DRI"), appeals the district court's entry of summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees Leather Industries of America ("LIA") and Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. ("Ashley"), on DRI's false advertising claim under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a). DRI alleged that...

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