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GIANNA ENTERPRISES v. MISS WORLD (JERSEY) LTD.

No. 81 Civ. 8121.

551 F.Supp. 1348 (1982)

GIANNA ENTERPRISES, a New Jersey Corporation, for itself and on behalf of all other franchisees of the Miss World-America Pageant, and on behalf of all the state contest winners of the Miss World-America Pageant, Plaintiffs, v. MISS WORLD (JERSEY) LTD., Miss World (UK) Ltd., Miss World-America Pageant, World-Wide Pageant Corporation, Eric D. Morley, Mark H. Fleischman, Miss Universe, Inc., Gulf and Western Industries, Inc., and Harold Glasser, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

December 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham Wax, P.C., New York City, for plaintiffs.

Davis & Gilbert, New York City, for Miss World; Howard Peck, New York City, of counsel.

Parker, Auspitz, Neesemann & Delehanty, New York City, for Miss Universe; John M. Delehanty, New York City, of counsel.

SOFAER, District Judge:

Until 1981, two international beauty pageant systems held national beauty contests in the United States. The most well-known of the two, the Miss Universe contest, continues today as it did then, choosing its winner from among the winners of state-wide contests, and sending her to compete in the international Miss Universe competition. The Miss World pageant used to work in much the same way. Miss World (U.K.), Miss World (Jersey) Ltd., and...

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