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Constitutional Law Keyed to Choper
San Francisco Arts and Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee
Citation:
483 U.S. 522 (1987)Facts
San Francisco Arts and Athletics, Inc. (SFAA) was a nonprofit California corporation that sought to organize the “Gay Olympic Games” in 1982. The United States Olympic Committee (USOC), which had been granted exclusive rights to use the word “Olympic” by Congress through the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, filed suit to prevent SFAA from using the term. SFAA had already begun promoting the event through posters, mailings, and merchandise bearing the title “Gay Olympic Games.” Despite SFAA’s argument that their use was intended to convey a political statement about the status of homosexuals in society, the courts consistently ruled in favor of USOC’s statutory right to control the use of the word “Olympic.”
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