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My Chemical Romance performs at MetLife Stadium, August 2025. Gabrielle Ravet for Rolling Stone My Chemical Romance is bowing out of a legal fight with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, reaching an agreement to stop dressing its backup dancers in costumes resembling the squad’s iconic royal blue and white uniforms during a mock gun battle onstage.
The cheer team, arguably the most famous in the world, filed a lawsuit against the rock band late Friday in Texas, accusing it of infringing on its trademarked uniforms during a provocative stage skit at the Hollywood Bowl last week. The band has two more shows scheduled at the venue for Oct. 30 and Halloween, marking its celebration of the 20th anniversary of its 2006 album, The Black Parade.
A temporary restraining order hearing was scheduled for today, Oct. 28, in Collin County, Texas, but online records confirm the courtroom showdown was cancelled because an “agreement [was] reached.” Sources confirm to Rolling Stone that My Chemical Romance agreed to stop using the costumes going forward.
The kerfuffle started at the band’s show last Wednesday, when dancers wearing supposedly infringing star-spangled uniforms stormed the stage with rifles drawn, aiming at black-clad troops representing a fictional dictatorship. A mock gun battle followed, according to video of the performance that circulated online and was cited in the lawsuit.
“The brand DCC built on dedication, character, and community, and on decades of entertaining American troops, was thus put on a stage in a gunfight, its uniform worn by performers shown shooting and being shot,” the lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone reads. (The lawsuit was originally filed in Dallas County but was later removed to Collin County.)
dude this is so fucking cool. all of the dallas cowboy cheerleaders coming to save gerard . all with guns . GODDDD #mcrhollywood video from mis_adventures on ig pic.twitter.com/x2Vz3NuGTI
— avery 🗡️ ieroween (@gorebugs) October 22, 2026
Other videos posted on social media from the Friday night show depicted the dancers still dressed in the outfits at the center of the lawsuit.
