The Bratz doll is back in business, thanks to the 9th Circuit. A panel on Thursday vacated Mattel’s hard-won injunction on behalf of its Barbie doll, finding the remedy too broad

A pro se litigant took on Toyota and won Thursday when the 9th Circuit held that her family business’s domain names, buy-a-lexus.com and buyorleaselexus.com, did not infringe on the auto giant’s trademark. The trial court’s injunction barring Lisa and Farzad Tabari from using the word Lexus in their brokerage’s website address was “plainly overbroad,” Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote for the majority. “It prohibits domain names that on their face dispel any confusion as to sponsorship or endorsement,” Kozinski wrote.

Not one to be left out of a constitutional thicket, 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski granted health benefits Thursday to the same-sex partners of court employees. Kozinski’s order came a day after his colleague, Judge Stephen Reinhardt, issued his own published directive that a federal public defender be awarded back pay because his same-sex partner’s benefits had been denied.

It seems that a disciplinary campaign against 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski for keeping explicit images on a personal Web site is falling silent. The U.S.

It seems that a disciplinary campaign against 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski for keeping explicit images on a personal Web site is falling silent.