Leather litigation.Score one for Sport Chalet Sport Chalet is a retailer of sporting equipment, apparel, shoes, and accessories in the United States. It operates approximately 40 company owned stores in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, with new stores opening soon in Utah, with the first at Jordan Landing. Inc. The La Canada-based sporting goods Noun 1. sporting goods - sports equipment sold as a commodity commodity, trade good, good - articles of commerce sports equipment - equipment needed to participate in a particular sport retailer has won a battle with animal rights activists who had sought to stop the retailer from selling high-end Adidas soccer cleats clad in kangaroo kangaroo, name for a variety of hopping marsupials, or pouched mammals, of the family Macropodidae, found in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. The term is applied especially to the large kangaroos of the genus Macropus. leather. The state Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed by the group Viva! International Voice for Animals and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. resident Jerold Friedman. The court found that a 35-year-old state law banning sales and imports of the leather conflicted with federal law. The U.S. cooperates with the Australian government on kangaroo conservation programs and allows some imports of kangaroo products. Craig Levra, chief executive of La Canada Flintridge-based Sport Chalet, said the store doesn't carry many of the shoes although they have been available throughout the court proceedings. The shoes retail for about $200. Orly Degani, an attorney for Davis-based Viva! and Friedman, said she will seek a rehearing rehearing n. conducting a hearing again based on the motion of one of the parties to a lawsuit, petition or criminal prosecution, usually by the court or agency which originally heard the matter. from the Court of Appeals or appeal the case to the California Supreme Court. |
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