Levi Strauss & Company, a U.S. clothier, said a Mexican court ordered it to pay US$44.5 million to Comexma, a Mexican supplier, after the jeans maker's Mexican counsel gave law enforcement inaccurate brand protection information that prompted a police raid.

Levi Strauss

This article is about the clothing manufacturer. For the anthropologist, see Claude Lévi-Strauss and for the company of the same name, see: Levi Strauss & Co..

Levi Strauss, born Löb Strauß & Company, a U.S. clothier, said a Mexican court ordered it to pay US$44.5 million to Comexma, a Mexican supplier, after the jeans maker's Mexican counsel gave law enforcement inaccurate brand protection information that prompted a police raid. Levi Strauss, which is appealing the ruling, said it never authorized au·thor·ize
tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es
1. To grant authority or power to.

2. To give permission for; sanction: the raid, which did not turn up bogus bo·gus
adj.
Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks.

[From obsolete bogus, a device for making counterfeit money. Levi's clothing.

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Publication:	Latin Trade
Article Type:	Brief Article
Geographic Code:	1USA
Date:	Jun 1, 2005
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