Michelle K. Lee v. Simon Shiao Tam.
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This essay won or received an honorable mention for The Boothe Prize for excellence in first-year writing. The Boothe Prize recognizes and rewards outstanding expository and argumentative writing by undergraduate students in the first-year Writing and Rhetoric classes, Integrated Learning Environments, and Thinking Matters programs. In each award-winning essay, student writers demonstrate clarity of argument, excellent integration of research-based evidence, and compelling prose style. Nicholas Branigan uses this essay to respond to the 2017 Supreme Court case Lee v Tam, in which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied Tam’s request to trademark the name of his band, “The Slants," because the name did not comply with the disparagement clause, thus introducing the question if the disparagement clause violates the First Amendment.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Branigan, Nicholas |
|---|---|
| Advisor | Bator, Paul |
Subjects
| Subject | Program in Writing and Rhetoric |
|---|---|
| Subject | government |
| Subject | speech |
| Subject | court |
| Subject | Lee v Tam |
| Genre | Article |
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- Branigan, Nicholas and Bator, Paul. (2017). Michelle K. Lee v. Simon Shiao Tam. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/mw063jc1985
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