Deliberations to resume Monday in lawsuit over Plaza name

Jurors seeking to resolve a fight over the use of the Plaza name in Las Vegas have gone home for the weekend and will resume deliberations on Monday.

The deliberations follow a three-week trial over a lawsuit by Tamares Las Vegas Properties, the company that owns the Plaza Hotel-Casino downtown.

They sued to stop Elad Group, owners of the Plaza hotel in New York City, from using the name on a proposed $6 billion resort on the Strip.

Tamares says the Plaza name has been attached to the Las Vegas property since it opened in 1971, even though it has also gone by the names Union Plaza and Jackie Gaughan's Plaza.

Elad says the Plaza name has been attached to the New York property since 1906 and that it is unlikely consumers would confuse their proposed Strip resort with the downtown hotel-casino.