Hat tip to Comm Law student Laura Acuff for the pointer to this story. As I told her, methinks the lady doth protest too much. Let’s see, her argument is that they are using her likeness — a little girl named Lindsay with a bad reputation — and defaming her. Sounds like bootstrapping to me.
Lindsay Lohan sues over milkaholic ETrade ad
Oh, and one more ironic thing: I once got a nasty letter from an E-Trade trademark lawyer requesting that I not use the word “e-trade” generically in the newspaper.