{"id":124419,"date":"2017-06-30T09:47:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=124419"},"modified":"2017-06-30T09:47:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:47:09","slug":"justice-dept-gives-up-redskins-legal-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=124419","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept., gives up &#8220;Redskins&#8221; legal fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-86540\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/redskinshelmet-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/redskinshelmet-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/redskinshelmet-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/redskinshelmet-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/redskinshelmet.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>WASHINGTON<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> (AP) \u2014 The Justice Department is giving up the legal fight over the name of the <span style=\"color: #333333;\">Washington\u00a0Redskins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a letter to a federal appeals court, the department said last week&#8217;s Supreme Court decision in favor of an Asian-American band calling itself the Slants means the NFL team will prevail in a legal battle to cancel the team&#8217;s trademarks because the name is disparaging to Native Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Freeman, an attorney for the Justice Department&#8217;s civil division, wrote on Wednesday to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals that the court &#8220;should reverse the judgment of the district court and remand the case with instructions to enter judgment in favor of Pro-Football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: red;\">Redskins<\/span> case had been on hold in the federal appeals court while the Slants decision was rendered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 (AP) \u2014 The Justice Department is giving up the legal fight over the name of the Washington\u00a0Redskins. In a letter to a federal appeals court, the department said last week&#8217;s Supreme Court decision in favor of an Asian-American band calling itself the Slants means the NFL team will prevail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124420,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124419\/revisions\/124420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}