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U.S. District Court Judge A. Howard Matz denied Vuitton’s motion to have a lawsuit brought by art collector Clint Arthur dismissed and set a pretrial conference for Aug. 24. In April Judge William Highberger from the Los Angeles Superior Court threw out a similar suit Arthur had brought against L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Arthur’s attorneys say Vuitton made as much as $4 million selling prints at a special boutique set up in the midst of a 2007–08 exhibition of Murakami’s work at the museum, where the collector bought two prints for $6,000 each. Arthur claims Vuitton violated California’s Fine Prints Act because the company did not certify the authenticity of the limited-edition artworks or provide information about how many prints exist and how they were created.

Louis Vuitton issued a statement saying it is "surprised and disappointed" by the ruling.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.