{"id":167,"date":"2009-08-11T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/8\/11\/Carl-Icahn-comedian"},"modified":"2009-08-11T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T23:02:00","slug":"carl-icahn-comedian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/carl-icahn-comedian\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Icahn, comedian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/805photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;As a result of [<strong>Tropicana Entertainment<\/strong>&apos;s] continued use of the Tropicana marks in interstate commerce, the Tropicana marks have achieved fame and notoriety and are associated in the minds of consumers nationwide with a consistent level of high-quality casino, entertainment and hotel and restaurant services.&quot; &#8212; <em>from court filings by Tropicana Entertainment, proud owner of the <strong>Tropicana Express<\/strong> in <strong>Laughlin<\/strong>, proprietor of the <strong>Horizon<\/strong> in <strong>Lake Tahoe<\/strong> (above) and evicted operator of the <strong>Tropicana Atlantic City<\/strong>. Uh, yeah, that &quot;notoriety&quot; part is right on the money. TropEnt is suing the Tropicana Las Vegas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2009\/aug\/11\/use-tropicana-name-issue-lawsuit\">to enjoin it from using the &quot;Tropicana&quot; name<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;As a result of [Tropicana Entertainment&apos;s] continued use of the Tropicana marks in interstate commerce, the Tropicana marks have achieved fame and notoriety and are associated in the minds of consumers nationwide with a consistent level of high-quality casino, entertainment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/carl-icahn-comedian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,82,15,76,49,9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}