A Washington DC judge ruled that the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church now controls the Proud Boys' name and symbols after a $2.8 million judgment for the group's vandalism in 2020.

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Trademark name of White hate group 'Proud Boys' now belongs to Black church

Extremist organization instrumental in the Jan. 6 insurrection has been stripped of its trademark after failing to pay compensatory damages to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

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The Independent

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Proud Boys lose naming rights to Black church it attacked after Trump rally in 2020

The Proud Boys lost control of their trademarked name on Monday after a judge in Washington, DC, ruled that it be handed over to a Black church that was attacked by members of the far-right group four years ago.

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Atlanta

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Georgia

DC judge gives control of Proud Boys’ trademark to Black church attacked by far-right group

Court rules Metropolitan AME Church owns Proud Boys' trademark after White supremacist group fails to pay $2.8 million judgment.

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National Amusements

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Proud Boys lose their trademark ownership to a Black church they vandalized, court rules

The Proud Boys have lost the legal right to use their own name, logos, and emblems after a judge awarded control of the group’s trademark to a historically black church in Washington, D.C. The ruling stems from a lawsuit over the Proud Boys’s destruction of Black Lives Matter banners during clashes between supporters of President Donald Trump and counter-demonstrators in December 2020.
Judge Tanya Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of …

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Proud Boys Lose Trademark Rights in Court Battle with Historically Black Church

The Proud Boys have lost their rights to profit off their name — to a Black church.According to The New York Times, the far-right group "was stripped of control over the trademark 'Proud Boys' and was barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Bl...

Raw Story

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Proud Boys must give up rights to their trademark to Black church they vandalized: report

Proud Boys chapters across the country can no longer use the group's name or logo unless granted approval by the church.

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Verizon Communications

Proud Boys Lose Trademarked Name To Black Church They Vandalized

A judge granted ownership of the "Proud Boys" trademarked name to a Black church the racist group in 2020 had vandalized, according to multiple reports.

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The Proud Boys (proud proud guys) lost their name this Monday on the order of a judge. The Trump militia—which won the fame in the convulsed 2020 for sowing chaos and violence in the streets of the United States and for the public support they received from Donald Trump—will no longer be able to use their title, which becomes the property, also as a trademark, of an African American church in the city of Washington that the group, led by its lea…

Los Proud Boys (muchachos orgullosos) perdieron este lunes el nombre por orden de un juez. La milicia trumpista —que conquistó la fama en el convulso 2020 por sembrar el caos y la violencia en las calles de Estados Unidos y por el apoyo público que recibieron de Donald Trump— no podrá seguir usando su título, que pasa a ser propiedad, también como marca comercial, de una iglesia afroamericana de la ciudad de Washington que el grupo, liderado por…

Un juez prohíbe a los Proud Boys usar su nombre y se lo da a una iglesia afroamericana a la que atacaron

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Spain

A judge forbids the Proud Boys to use his name and gives it to an African-American church they attacked.

The Proud Boys is barred from selling merchandise using its name or symbols without permission from a Black church once vandalized by the right-wing extremist group's members, after a Washington, D.C., judge on Monday revoked its control over the trademark. Judge Tanya Jones Bosier of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia turned control of the "Proud Boys" trademark over to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was …

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Church vandalized by Proud Boys now controls group's trademark, judge rules

Hate group the Proud Boys have lost control of their trademarked name after a judge in Washington, DC, ruled that it be handed over to a Black church that was attacked by members of the far-right group four years ago.The decision from Judge Tanya M. Jones Bosier is meant to fulfill a $US2.8 million ($4.5 million) default judgment entered against the Proud Boys by a different judge in DC in 2023 to get back damages incurred by the church during t…

Proud Boys Lose Trademark Rights to Black Church They Attacked

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