Bored Ape NFT Trademark Suit Judge Threatens Attorney Sanctions
Attorneys for an artist alleged to have sold fake Bored Ape Yatch Club nonfungible tokens could face a $1,500 sanction for “repeated violations” of a Los Angeles federal court’s standing order, US District Judge John F. Walter said Thursday. Walter also struck conceptual artist Ryder Ripp’s Anti-Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation motion.
The judge’s order said the defendants will have until Sept. 6 to explain in writing why “lead counsel should not be sanctioned.” Louis W. Tompros of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, who represents Ripps, said in a statement to Bloomberg Law that he will respond to the order by the court’s deadline. Ripps’ motions, filed on Aug. 31, violated paragraph 3(b) of the court’s standing order, which governs the time and format for filing motions, according to Walter, of the US District Court for the Central District of California.
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