Criticized for Bratz dolls’ overly sexualized image, the children’s publisher will no longer include Bratz doll picture books in any of its school book clubs or fairs this year.

A federal jury awarded Mattel $100 million in a copyright lawsuit that pitted the maker of Barbie against the maker of the Bratz dolls, MGA Entertainment.

A federal jury awarded Mattel $40 million in a copyright lawsuit that pitted the maker of Barbie against the maker of the Bratz dolls, MGA Entertainment.

A lawyer for the maker of Bratz dolls said that he had sought a mistrial because of an ethnic slur made by a juror who has been dismissed from the copyright infringement case brought by Mattel.

Mattel won a nearly complete victory in its federal copyright infringement case against a rival over which toy maker owns the original drawings for the Bratz fashion doll franchise.