New World Coffee a NJ-based coffee and bagel (it bought Manhattan Bagels
a while back) franchise company is seeking a TRO in New Jersey state
court on Friday to try and shut down two disparagement sites.
www.NewWorldCoffeeFraud.com
www.NewWorldFraud.com
The company is claiming breach of franchise agreement by
franchisees who are supposedly saying unkind things about it.
It is also claiming that the domain names newworldcoffefraud.com and
newworldfraud.com are likely to confuse innocent surfers looking for
coffee.
The sites claim that NWC is guilty of fraud in selling franchises and
lack of support for franchisees once they buy in.
The defendants have no lawyers and are proceeding in pro se. The
sites may be gone Friday night if the judge rules against them.
Get them while they're hot.
DCF
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in a speech to the AFSCME in Chicago June 21, 1996.