The battle between former drug baron Freeway Rick Ross and Hip-Hop star Rick Ross rages on in court.
The two men appeared in a Miami court last week, to give depositions in their ongoing trademark dispute over the name Rick Ross.
Freeway Rick Ross originally filed a $10 million lawsuit against Rick
Ross, born William Leonard Roberts III in May of 2010, claiming that he
is illegally profiting off of his name.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the United States District for Southern California, was
dismissed in Federal court in November of 2010, when a judge ruled that
he couldn’t sue, because his past criminal acts destroyed “any
possibility that he has any valid trademark rights in his name, that
have been violated by defendants.”
The judge ruled that Freeway Rick could appeal in state court, which he did immediately.
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