Dive Summary:
- Former NBA star and Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan was ordered to appear in court last Wednesday at Dirksen U.S. Courthouse for an off-the-record settlement conference in his $5 million lawsuit against Dominick's Finer Foods LLC and parent company Safeway Inc.
- Jordan filed the suit against Dominick's in 2010 over a 2009 Hall of Fame celebratory ad in Sports Illustrated that used his name without permission, which U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur says the chain is liable for despite calling Jordan's demand for $5 million in damages "greedy."
- In addition to the Dominick's lawsuit, Jordan is also appealing a ruling in a suit against Jewel-Osco over a congratulatory ad that U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman found to be First Amendment-protected "non-commercial speech."
From the article:
... "I think it would be a constructive use of time to see whether some element of sanity cannot be introduced into this matter," Shadur was quoted as saying in a transcript of a May 22 hearing.
"I thought the demand was greedy," Shadur said of Jordan, who is seeking $5 million in damages for a one-page ad that ran in a Sports Illustrated commemorative issue celebrating Jordan's induction into the Hall of Fame. ...
