Taco Bell ordered to pay Chihuahua’s creators $42M… That’s a lot of tacos!

A federal appeals court has ruled that Taco Bell Corp. is responsible for a $42 million judgment awarded to the creators of the fast-food chain’s popular Chihuahua sales mascot.

A Michigan jury in 2003 found that Irvine-based Taco Bell didn’t properly pay the dog’s Grand Rapids, Mich. creators, Tom Rinks and Joe Shields, when it launched its $500 million advertising blitz in the 1990s that popularized the phrase "¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!"

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