Cayabyab
Iglesia Ni Cristo v. Cayabyab
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 4 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 SAN JOSE DIVISION 6 7 IGLESIA NI CRISTO, Case No. 18-cv-00561-BLF
8 Plaintiff,
ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND
9 v. DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS’
MOTION FOR SUMMARY
10 LUISITO E. CAYABYAB; ISAIAS T. JUDGMENT
SAMSON, JR.; ROLANDO DIZON, JR.;
11 LIONEL ROQUE DE LA USO; ALLAN [Re: ECF 125]
MONTE DE RAMOS; JERIEL NEMIS;
12 JESLE LLABAN KUIZON; BERNARD
GARCIA; LIEZL DIAZ-DEOCAMPO;
13 EDWIN LIONEL R. MORA; ALLAN VILLANUEVA; and H2O NOW USA, a 14 California Non-Profit Mutual Benefit Corporation, 15 Defendants. 16 17 Plaintiff Iglesia Ni Cristo (“INC”), a non-profit religious corporation, sues eleven of its 18 former ministers, officers, and members (“Individual Defendants”) and the non-profit religious 19 corporation they formed, Defendant H2O Now USA (“H2O”). INC claims that Defendants hold 20 themselves out as affiliated with INC, using INC’s trademarked name, Seal, Executive Seal, and 21 Flag, and INC’s copyrighted hymns, thus causing confusion…