{"id":1253,"date":"2016-10-17T19:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2016-10-17T22:14:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:14:48","slug":"ontario-judge-cleveland-indians-may-use-logo-and-name-in-playoff-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/17\/ontario-judge-cleveland-indians-may-use-logo-and-name-in-playoff-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Judge:  Cleveland Indians May Use Logo and Name in Playoff Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO: A judge decided\u00a0the Cleveland Indians will not be banned from\u00a0use of their full team name and logo during\u00a0playoff games with the Toronto Blue Jays. \u00a0The ruling\u00a0comes after lawyers requested\u00a0a court to ban the use of the team&#8217;s name and cartoon logo.<\/p>\n<p>Some\u00a027 lawyers representing the Cleveland Indians, Major League Baseball and the plaintiffs attended the hearing, which was moved to a larger court room because of\u00a0the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The injunction had been sought by an activist, who filed complaints with\u00a0the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and Canadian Human Rights Commission on the issue. \u00a0Attorneys\u00a0argued that the combination of the team name and logo was racial discrimination and therefore\u00a0a violation of the Ontario Human Rights Code and Canada&#8217;s Human Rights Act.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for the team argued that the requested ban\u00a0was censorship and stated\u00a0the court, where the matter was heard, wasn&#8217;t the appropriate place for the issue to be resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">TORONTO: A judge decided\u00a0the Cleveland Indians will not be banned from\u00a0use of their full team name and logo during\u00a0playoff games with the Toronto Blue Jays. \u00a0The ruling\u00a0comes after lawyers requested\u00a0a court to ban the use <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/10\/17\/ontario-judge-cleveland-indians-may-use-logo-and-name-in-playoff-games\/\" title=\"Ontario Judge:  Cleveland Indians May Use Logo and Name in Playoff Games\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,2],"tags":[795,794,796,790,793,791,792],"class_list":{"0":"post-1253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-human-rights","9":"category-news","10":"tag-canadas-human-rights-act","11":"tag-canadian-human-rights-commission","12":"tag-censorship","13":"tag-cleveland-indians","14":"tag-human-rights-tribunal-of-ontario","15":"tag-logo","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}