Girl Scouts of the USA wants to take Boy Scouts of America to court. The organization has filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Boy Scouts of trademark infringement.
This started last October, when the Boy Scouts said it would start allowing girls to join its programs.
That decision was strongly decried by the Girl Scouts. In a scathing letter released by BuzzFeed News, Girl Scouts National President Kathy Hopinkah Hannan accused the Boy Scouts’ national president at the time, Randall Stephenson, of carrying out a “covert campaign” to recruit girls.
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