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Judge refuses to strip Mongols biker club of trademarked logo

LOS ANGELES - The Mongols motorcycle club Thursday won the latest round in its battle with the federal government, when a judge refused to carry out a jury's decision to strip the club of trademarks it holds on its coveted logo.

Denying Mongol members, many of whom have been convicted over past decades for a range of violent crimes and drug offenses, the right to display the logo on their leather riding jackets and elsewhere would overstep the constitutional right to free expression embedded in the First Amendment, as well as the Eighth Amendment's ban on excessive penalties, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled.

"We are ecstatic that the Mongols motorcycle

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