July 13, 2012
The organizers of the Mrs. United States beauty pageant on Friday won a preliminary injunction preventing a former beauty queen from using similar pageant names for her own contests as a New York federal judge found the plaintiff would be harmed by the woman's continued use of the marks.
March 19, 2012
The organizers of the Mrs. United States beauty pageant on Friday sued a former pageant queen who allegedly started a competing beauty contest that cribbed on the trademarks of the original event.