Congressional Digest

Supreme Court Debates March 2017 No. 3 Vol. 20
National Congress of American Indians, Cherokee Nation, et al., Amici Curiae

Offensive Trademarks

Free Speech and Protection for "Disparaging" Words

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National Congress of American Indians, Cherokee Nation, et al., Amici Curiae

Charles A. Rothfeld, Counsel of Record

National Congress of American Indians and Cherokee Nation are joined in this brief by two other American Indian tribes and the Morning Star Institute, an indigenous people’s rights organization. Charles A. Rothfeld is a special counsel with the law firm Mayer Brown, where he specializes in finance, liability, and property rights litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court November 16, 2016.  Amici fully support the position advanced by the government — including its arguments that Section 2(a) is not a restriction on speech rights at all, that trademark…

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