Experts Cleared To Testify At Michael Jordan’s Right- Of-Publicity Damages Trial

Mealey's (July 28, 2015, 7:55 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Two opposing damages experts — one for basketball great Michael Jordan and the other for two supermarket chains that Jordan says violated his right of publicity under Illinois state law — can testify on the fair market value of the chains’ misappropriation of Jordan’s identity in a magazine advertisement, a federal judge in Illinois held July 23 (Michael Jordan, et al. v. Dominick’s Finer Foods, et al., No. 10-407, N.D. Ill.; 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 95921)....