Federal Judge Rules Second-grader Can Sue Over T-shirt Design

A federal judge in New York has ruled a clothing-company contract that requires a second-grader to give up the copyright in a T-shirt design that won a school competition may have been "unconscionable."

The parents of a Manhattan student, who was 7 years old when she entered a T-shirt-design contest, is suing for the rights to her design, which her parents signed away when she entered the contest, organized by clothing company LittleMissMatched.

U.S. District Court Judge Gregory Woods said that a previous decision to prevent a suit by the student was “unconscionable," according to Courthouse News.