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CHICAGO A federal judge has ordered Taco Bell to pay an additional $11.8 million to two people who claim to have created the fast-food company’s Chihuahua mascot from the 1990s.
According to the attorneys representing Joseph Shields and Thomas Rinks, the total award in the case over creative ownership of the mascot are now more than $42 million. The pair was awarded $30.1 million in damages in June. The additional money is interest from the time the original suit was filed in 1998 through Sept.
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