The electronics chain also revealed a letter from Blockbuster which said that if it was unable to receive financing or shareholder approval for the deal, Icahn is waiting in the wings to buy the company himself.

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In a letter to the chain, he wrote: "When Massachusetts became the first state in the country to recognize equal marriage rights, I personally stood on City Hall Plaza to greet same-sex couples coming here to be married, " he added.

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Fendi sent Burlington a cease-and-desist letter, but when the retail chain kept selling the bags, Fendi filed a new lawsuit in 2006 against Burlington for violation of trademark and for contempt of the 1987 injunction.

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