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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive.
The high court turned away an appeal from Suzan Shown Harjo.
The move ends the latest round in a 17 year court battle between the Redskins and a group of Native Americans who want them to change their name.
Harjo and her fellow plaintiffs have been working since 1992 to have Redskins trademarkks declared invalid.
They initially won their case.
Leading the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office panel to cancel the trademarks in 1999.
But U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly overturned the ruling in 2003, in part because the suit was filed decades after the first Redskins trademark was issued in 1967.
