Ivanka: can't do deposition because she is a high-ranking government official. [View all]

[dixiegrrrrl]

A Manhattan judge has ordered Ivanka Trump to give a deposition in a lawsuit by an Italian designer accusing her of trademark infringement and ripping off a shoe design.
The ruling was in response to her lawyers’ arguments that Trump should be allowed to skip the deposition in part because of her “extraordinary circumstances” as a “high-ranking government employee.”

In a statement filed with the court June 16, Trump said she had “no involvement in the conception, design, production or sale of the Hettie shoe,” the sandal at the center of the suit by Florence shoemaker Aquazzura. She said her only involvement was a “final sign-off of each season’s line after it was first reviewed and approved by the company’s design team.”

the judge did not buy her excuse.

At the link there are pics of the original shoe and of her rip-off. Seems pretty obvious.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-trademark-lawsuit_us_594eec7be4b05c37bb76cac2?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067