{"id":2007,"date":"2010-10-12T18:33:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2011-01-21T01:58:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T01:58:01","slug":"suits-remain-on-file-against-blaine-kerns-mardi-gras-float-production-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Suits remain on file against Blaine Kern&#8217;s Mardi Gras float production company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2308209459674001\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"728x90_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"CCCCCC\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"C2C2C2\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"666666\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"333333\";\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, well, well. I thought the Kerns had kissed and made up, at the urging of Bacchus Captain Pip Brennan and Endymion Captain Ed Muniz. They may have made up publicly, but the suits Barry Kern filed to dump his Dad as head of the family company remain on file.<\/p>\n<p>A separate suit filed in Orleans Parish is also continuing. In it, Mardi  Gras World LLC (MGW) is suing Blaine Kern and BKA, claiming that BKA has  violated its licensing agreement and moved property from MGW&#8217;s  warehouse on the Mississippi riverfront.<\/p>\n<p>That petition for  injunction was filed Sept. 15 and claims that the defendants &#8220;removed  inventory from the plaintiff&#8217;s business and have threatened to continue  to remove inventory.&#8221; MGW and BKA have a licensing deal, a copy of which  was attached to the petition, that grants MGW &#8220;exclusive license&#8221; for  all property &#8211; including floats, props, costumes and sculptures &#8211;  possessing a &#8220;Mardi Gras theme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to court papers, MGW  sought a temporary restraining order against BKA to prevent Blaine Kern  or his employees from removing any more Mardi Gras property. A September  hearing was continued until Oct. 28 after plaintiffs filed an amended  petition for injunction.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans attorneys Randall Smith, Stephen Gele and Zach Butterworth represent Barry Kern.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans attorney Stephen Dwyer represents MGW.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans attorney Marc Stein is listed as the registered agent for BKA.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2308209459674001\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"728x90_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\ngoogle_ad_channel =\"\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"CCCCCC\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"C2C2C2\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"666666\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"333333\";\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, well. I thought the Kerns had kissed and made up, at the urging of Bacchus Captain Pip Brennan and Endymion Captain Ed Muniz. They may have made up publicly, but the suits Barry Kern filed to dump his Dad as head of the family company remain on file. A separate suit filed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4,9,107,429,128],"tags":[433,366,441,432,430,442,1156,440],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.carnivalneworleans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}