Trademark Board Hears Challenge To 'Redskins' Team Name : The Two-Way : NPR

[Victor Steinbok]

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> The five plaintiffs must now prove that "the name 'Washington
> Redskins' was disparaging to a significant population of American
> Indians back when the team was granted the trademarks from 1967 to
> 1990," according to an AP report on ESPN's site.
> ...
> The Washington Redskins have maintained that the name is not meant to
> be offensive. But the AP reports that Judge Peter Cataldo, a member of
> the Trademark panel, said Thursday that "the team could have called
> itself the 'Washington N-word' with nothing but honorable intentions
> and still be subject to scrutiny."

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