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When Susan Shand, a journalist in Washington, needed wine for a dinner party she was hosting, she headed for the store to buy her favorite brand: Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Later that evening, however, she discovered that she had bought Turning Leaf, a new Gallo wine, instead. "I looked like an idiot," she recalls...
...worst, certainly nothing to make a federal case out of--unless you happen to be Jess Jackson. The burly lawyer turned winemaker created a new market segment with Kendall-Jackson Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. When mistakes are made like Shand's, he believes it's because Turning Leaf's owner, industry giant E. & J. Gallo Winery, has unfairly copied his bottle design. So Jackson is suing Gallo, claiming it has co-opted sales of his category-topping Vintner's Reserve. Gallo disputes the charges, but there is no disputing Turning Leaf's rousing success. It shot up to second place...
This year there were two separate incidents in which swastikas were scrawled on loose leaf paper and left on undergraduate dorm room doors...
...federal jury put aside the wrath of grape magnate Jess Jackson, denying winery Kendall-Jackson's claim that industry giant E&J Gallo deliberately copied its bottle. The suit matched two of California's most stubborn and litigious vintners, Jackson and Ernest Gallo, over whether Gallo's Turning Leaf Chardonnay was designed to cleverly imitate the look (and sales success) of Kendall Jackson's top-selling Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Indeed, with its flanged top, visible cork and yellowing grape leaf, Gallo's bottle looks remarkably similar. It's been similar in the stores, as well: in just two years...
Remembering how harsh the media was to her four years ago, we are left to wonder what has changed. Has the media turned over a new leaf? Or has Chelsea herself changed? One sentence can answer all our questions. Last year, when Chelsea first reappeared in the public eye on tour with her mother, two Newsweek reporters wrote a commentary praising Chelsea and how she had grown up so well despite the fishbowl phenomenon. Yet, in their surprise at Chelsea's new appearance, they wrote: Is this the same awkward orthodontically-challenged girl who moved into the White House three...