Catch up on legal news and items of interest from last week:
- “Senate OKs first openly gay black federal judge” (AP)
- The USPTO cancelled trademark protection of the Washington Redskins name for being disparaging (ATL Redline)
- Judge Posner and the 7th Circuit determined that most of the Sherlock Holmes canon is in the public domain (Washington Post)
- Dallas County, the one in Texas, surprisingly backed a non-binding resolution in support of reparations for slavery. Turns out the county commissioners did it by accident (The Atlantic)
- Chobani yogurt is not made in Greece and is full of sugar, says a man who has filed a suit saying that the yogurt is deceptively marketed (ABA Journal)
