Lawyer With Covid-19 Requests Delay in Bud Light Ad Argument

One of Anheuser-Busch’s lawyers asked the Seventh Circuit for a new oral argument date in its case against MillerCoors over a Bud Light Super Bowl ad campaign, telling the court he’d tested positive for Covid-19.

Dowd Bennett LLP’s James F. Bennett told the court Monday that his condition is improving, but asked the court to delay the argument until at least April 28 based on the St. Louis Health Department’s restrictions on his movements.

MillerCoors sued AB in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin for AB’s Super Bowl ad campaign mocking MillerCoors for brewing Miller Lite ...