{"id":11157,"date":"2024-06-27T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T20:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=11157"},"modified":"2024-06-27T16:31:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T20:31:02","slug":"cast-away-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/cast-away-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cast Away Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Festival feud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The executive director of \u201cThe Nantucket Wine & Food Festival,\u201d Nancy Bean, has filed a lawsuit in US District Court and is asking for a trial by jury.\u00a0 Bean\u2019s event has run since 1996, every year during the third week of May.\u00a0 The focus of the lawsuit involves the discovery of an announcement that Gordon Companies Inc. will be hosting a similar event next year under the name \u201cThe Nantucket Food and Wine Experience.\u201d\u00a0 Although the names of the two events are undeniably comparable, the crux of the legal issue extends far beyond this matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Bean argues that the competing company is not only holding the event next year during the exact five days in May that were usually reserved for the prior event, but the company is also using the location that Bean\u2019s festival has used for ten years, the White Elephant hotel.\u00a0 While these details are a cause for concern<\/a>, Bean claims that the true deceit and misleading behavior of the competing company derives from the announcement of the event.\u00a0 In a statement that has since been rescinded, Gordon Companies Inc. alleges that the new festival, \u201cThe Nantucket Food and Wine Experience,\u201d is a rebranding effort intended through the new ownership of the long-running festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Bean, this announcement is fictitious and aims to ride on the coattails of success from the previous festival.\u00a0 Consistently, Bean\u2019s event attracts 4,000 visitors to the island and entices them to partake in \u201cworld-class cuisine and exceptional wines.\u201d\u00a0 By providing a strong revenue stream, the festival has shown exceptional contribution to the island\u2019s tourism industry.\u00a0 In the lawsuit, Bean is asking Gordon Companies Inc. to acknowledge that its prior media statements were false and that its new festival will not be held on the same dates, at the same location, as her event.\u00a0 Gordon Companies Inc. has since denied affiliation with Bean\u2019s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The executive director of \u201cThe Nantucket Wine & Food Festival,\u201d Nancy Bean, has filed a lawsuit in US District Court and is asking for a trial by jury.\u00a0 Bean\u2019s event…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[537,396,2524,1078,2693],"class_list":["post-11157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawsuits","tag-breach-of-contract","tag-business-2","tag-competition","tag-media","tag-state-local"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11160,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11157\/revisions\/11160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}