Country singer Kenny Chesney's legal attempts to secure a nationwide ban on merchandise bootleggers outside his gigs (which presumably would have given the police the right to move said bootleggers on) has been rejected by US district judge Leon Jordan in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Judge Jordan said Chesney's failure to show the court an ‘official’ T-shirt as evidence was the key point in his refusal to grant the merchandise ban – the case was based on the allegation that bootleggers confused fans into thinking they were buying licensed merchandise. Jordan told the court” "This omission makes it impossible for the court to perform a complete comparison of the goods to determine the likelihood of confusion caused by the bootleg merchandise.”