Idaho Golf Partners, Inc. v. Timberstone Management, LLC
United States District Court, District of Idaho
2016 WL 4974944 (2015)
Relevant factsFree
Idaho Golf Partners (plaintiff) and Timberstone Management (TSM) (defendant) both operated golf courses named TimberStone Golf Course in different states, and in their trademark dispute TSM sought to introduce its employees' testimony about receiving confused calls from golfers trying to reach the other course, as well as one owner's testimony recounting reports she received from those same employees about such calls; Idaho objected to both as inadmissible hearsay it could not cross-examine.
IssueFree
Whether out-of-court statements are hearsay when used only to show the speaker's state of mind at the time of the statement, rather than to prove the truth of what the speaker said.