Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Grp., Inc., __ U.S.__, 140 S. Ct. 1589 (2020)
The Supreme Court of the United States—in the context of a two-decade-long trademark dispute between clothing brand Marcel Fashions dba Get Lucky and jean maker Lucky Brand—ruled that the traditional theories of claim preclusion could be extended to bar a defendant from asserting defenses in a later suit that were not raised or fully litigated in an earlier suit. More