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Wesley Financial unentitled to jury trial in Diamond Resorts’ US false ad case

By Melissa Ritti ( May 8, 2025, 13:50 GMT | Insight) -- A Tennessee federal court yesterday joined a long line of others in concluding there is no statutory right to a jury trial under the Lanham Act. If the dispute between Diamond Resorts and Wesley Financial over an alleged scheme to induce property owners to break their timeshare agreements does make it to trial next year, it will be before a judge — not jurors.A request for disgorged profits to remedy false advertising under the Lanham Act is equitable, extinguishing the Seventh Amendment right of defendants to a trial by jury, US Judge Clifton L. Corker of the Eastern District of Tennessee ruled yesterday....

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