Model-Train Outfit Calls MTA a Bully - McDermott Will & Emery

Model-Train Outfit Calls MTA a Bully

Overview


John Dabney is defending a model-train company before the Fourth Circuit against trademark claims by New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority involving the company’s replicas of the public transit cars that run in New York. The company says the threatened litigation is barred by the fair-use doctrine and the First Amendment.