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In '''''San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Comm.''''', 483 U.S. 522 (1987), the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] upheld the power of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) to ban the name "Gay Olympic Games" by the San Francisco Ars & Athletics organization. The Court ruled in favor of the constitutionality of a provision of the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, 36 U.S.C. ยงยง 371-396, that authorizes the United States Olympic Committee to prohibit certain commercial and promotional uses of the word "Olympic".
Petitioner San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. (SFAA), was a nonprofit California corporation that began to promote the "Gay Olympic Games," using those words on its letterheads and mailings and in local newspapers. The games were to be a 9-day event to begin in August 1982, in [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. After a torch relay to imitate the real Olympic torch relay, the final runner would enter the stadium with the "Gay Olympic Torch" and light the "Gay Olympic Flame." To cover the cost of the planned Games, the SFAA sold T-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, and other merchandise bearing the title "Gay Olympic Games."
