Fox anchor, Hasbro end suit over toy hamster with same name
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October 6, 2016
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP, Oct. 5, 2016) — A Fox News anchor has settled a $5 million lawsuit against Hasbro over a plastic toy hamster that shared her name and that she said was designed to look like her.
Harris Faulkner, who hosts the show "Outnumbered," sued Pawtucket-based Hasbro Inc. in federal court in New Jersey last year. She said a plastic hamster named Harris Faulkner that was part of the company's Littlest Pet Shop line wrongfully appropriated her name and persona, harmed her credibility as a journalist and was an insult.
Faulkner's lawsuit said the hamster, sidekick to a terrier named B...
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