Title: Can the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Really Sue My Chemical Romance? Here’s What Experts Say URL Source: https://www.billboard.com/pro/can-the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-sue-my-chemical-romance/ Published Time: 2026-10-26T18:00:51Z Markdown Content: [Skip to main content](https://www.billboard.com/pro/can-the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-sue-my-chemical-romance/#pagetop)[](https://www.billboard.com/pro/can-the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders-sue-my-chemical-romance/) ## Can the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Really Sue My Chemical Romance?
Here’s What Experts Say The NFL cheerleaders say the band can't use their uniforms in concerts. Here's how they're suing, what comes next, and why legal experts have big doubts.  My Chemical Romance perform in London, England on July 8, 2026.Bryce Hall/Rolling Stone [My Chemical Romance](https://www.billboard.com/artist/my-chemical-romance/) is facing a lawsuit from the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders after the band’s backup dancers performed in look-alike uniforms.
Here’s what the case claims — and what legal experts think about it. 23) in Texas court and obtained by _Billboard_, the case centers on the band’s current Hollywood Bowl run for anniversary of _The Black Parade_, in which dancers in similar blue-and-white uniforms stage a faux firefight with rifles as part of a theatrical performance set in a dystopian future. [](https://www.billboard.com/pro/elvis-presley-estate-sues-suno-anthropic/) The case, filed by the cheerleaders’ parent company Pro Silver Star, is seeking an immediate restraining order barring the band from continuing to use the uniforms, including in the final two shows in Los Angeles this upcoming weekend.
“Silver Star is not litigious, and it takes no issue with MCR’s music, its artistic ambitions, or any message defendants seek to convey,” writes **Alex Spiro**, the well-known celebrity litigator representing the cheerleaders.
“Silver Star does not ask defendants to change their setlist, narrative, politics, choreography, or even their decision to put gun-toting performers on stage.
“Silver Star asks only that those performers not wear the DCC Uniform while doing it,” the company writes. “The universe of alternative costume designs is effectively unlimited.” **What is this lawsuit claiming?** Silver Star claims that My Chemical Romance, as well as concert promoter Live Nation, infringed their trademark rights by using the phony Cowboys Cheerleader uniforms on stage.