(December 31, 2020, 11:16 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A manufacturer of dog toys tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a Dec. 16 brief that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals correctly found a squeaky toy resembling a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Properties Inc.’s whiskey to be an expressive work protected under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, asking the high court to deny the distillery’s petition for certiorari regarding trademark infringement and dilution in the context of a humorous commercial product....