AMC Sued for Portrayal of Liberty Tax in ‘Better Call Saul’

Liberty Tax Service is seeking to stop AMC Networks Inc. from distributing a recent episode of the legal drama “Better Call Saul” because it allegedly misuses the tax preparation company’s trademarks, a New York federal lawsuit said.

Liberty Tax, whose corporate name is JTH Tax LLC, claimed in the Monday complaint that the show portrays a business called “Sweet Liberty Tax Service” in Episode 2 of Season 6, run by a convicted felon who fraudulently steals customer refunds.

That episode of “Better Call Saul"—a spin-off of AMC’s critically acclaimed TV series “Breaking Bad"—uses “an obvious imitation of an actual Liberty ...