Hells Angels Serve Amazon.com & Wildfox With Lawsuit

We love a good retail lawsuit, which is good because it seems like there's a new on everyday.

This week everyone was talking about the Hells Angels, which hit Amazon.com and L.A. brand Wildfox with lawsuits for wrongfully using its name.

The Los Angeles Times reported that the storied motorcycle gang brought the suit over t-shirts that read, "My boyfriend's a Hells Angel" and featured the signature Hells Angles wings on the back.

"We bring these lawsuits from time to time not just to punish but to educate," Hells Angels' attorney Fritz Clapp told the Los Angeles Times. "Somebody thought erroneously that Hells Angels is a generic term."

Just because Hells Angels get in bar brawls and run from the law doesn't mean they can't be sensitive about you using their name.

This isn't the first lawsuit over use of the iconic group name. Saks Fifth Avenue and Zappos have both been served with suits over using the Hells Angel name or emblems and even Alexander McQueen got into trouble for several items.

Trying to take a little of that hardcore biker cred for oneself, apparently, does not fly with the Hells Angels.

Which is fine by us. We're not sure we would have bought that t-shirt anyway...

Read more at LATimes.com.

Comments

[Israel4Ever]

03:34 PM on 08/30/2011

And these cases do not even take into account them forcing LA meth dealers to take their name of unapproved crank cellies.

[ToCensorIsAnEpicFail]

11:13 AM on 08/30/2011

That the "hell's angels" view themselves as a brand is very telling. Society is doomed in the short run.

[quiscut]

09:53 PM on 08/29/2011

Hells Angels is spelled without the possessive apostrophe.

[GraniteSkyline]

01:44 PM on 08/29/2011

Who knew HeII's Angels were so overly sensitive.

[tiffaniedeelynne]

12:08 PM on 08/29/2011

Well maybe if they put a little effort into the t-shirt design..? haha, j/k

I think gangs are the most fascinating thing! Someone to have your back all the time. Sign me up! I just don't want to do anything mean or bad :P

[DanSc]

11:57 AM on 08/29/2011

Lawsuits are better than capping someone. Nice to see the Hell's Angels working inside the law.

[weebles48]

10:13 AM on 08/29/2011

they are just mad because it's on a female. i never see any of those biker ppl with women.
hmm.
seriously the only bikies i see with women are older guys touring with their wives. the chopper crowd is too macho to hang out with women and most women don't want to ride on those silly bikes.

[Hildagard Witherspoon]

07:17 AM on 08/29/2011

I don't blame them. If they didn't keep control over their name, we'd see 'Hell's Angels' sneakers, toddler's pull-ups and golf bags.
BTW, I'd trust a Hell's Angel's word over a politician anyday.

[tuff guy]

11:41 PM on 08/29/2011

hell's angels depends, or hell's angels tampons.

nice.

[mad world]

07:22 PM on 08/28/2011

Why anyone who is at all knowledgeable about that organization would want that shirt is beyond me.

[Ms Liann]

05:18 PM on 08/28/2011

Acutally, if her boyfriend were really a Hell's Angel, that would make her probably a white slave prostitute acting in a cheezy porn movie on the 15-on-1 website. Prolly she should sharpie her excort booking service phone number below.

[dino213aa]

02:15 PM on 08/28/2011

C'mon HuffPo, what's with the typos? Where's the proofreading?

[furtura1]

12:12 PM on 08/28/2011

f Amazon.com, f Wildfox, and f the angles

[Pupadup4oBama]

09:17 AM on 08/28/2011

Crappy tshirt anyway

[signgrrl]

11:31 AM on 08/28/2011

really bad design . . . . :-(

[dil123]

08:14 AM on 08/28/2011

It doesn't even look like a good t-shirt, it looks like something you could buy off the boardwalk for $3 dollars.

[Ed Haskell]

02:08 AM on 08/28/2011

Doesn't Red and White make pink...