Today, the Supreme Court has ruled that Coca-Cola Coca-Cola’s Minute Maid subsidiary is not permitted to use FDA regulations to shield it from a lawsuit by the makers of POM for unfair competition. While Supreme Court decisions are always newsworthy, this decision is not settling some juicy debate within false-advertising and trademark law. Coca-Cola tried to blend together several different legal principles and squeeze out a result that protects them against a competitor’s claim that the Minute Maid name and label design will fool consumers. The current Trademark Act is called the La...