CDR: New World Coffee Disparagement Sites to be Shutdown?
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 ---- "They believe that the Government is the problem and that what everyone needs is to be told, 'You're on your own; go out there into the tender mercies of the global economy; have a great time in cyberspace, and we'll get out of your way.'" -- William Jefferson Blythe Clinton in a speech to the AFSCME in Chicago June 21, 1996.
At 10:40 PM 9/13/00 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote: 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. ======= Why, yes! When I want to look at the wares of company "X", I often go to www.companyxsucks.com, or www.companyxripoff.com! Any judge who buys that line of reasoning should be impeached, on the grounds our Founding Fathers did not intend that the judiciary be populated by fungus.
Lizard wrote:
At 10:40 PM 9/13/00 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
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. ======= Why, yes! When I want to look at the wares of company "X", I often go to www.companyxsucks.com, or www.companyxripoff.com!
Any judge who buys that line of reasoning should be impeached, on the grounds our Founding Fathers did not intend that the judiciary be populated by fungus.
Now, now, not every judge who commits fatuum judicium is incompetent. Some are corrupt. -- Steve Furlong, Computer Condottiere Have GNU, will travel 518-374-4720 sfurlong@acmenet.net
At 10:40 PM -0400 9/13/00, Duncan Frissell wrote:
The defendants have no lawyers and are proceeding in pro se. The sites may be gone Friday night if the judge rules against them.
More and more I'm coming to the conclusion that this is the real crime: not hiring lawyers. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
Tim May wrote:
The defendants have no lawyers and are proceeding in pro se. The sites may be gone Friday night if the judge rules against them.
More and more I'm coming to the conclusion that this is the real crime: not hiring lawyers.
in a world run by lawyers, not paying your road fees is, of course, a crime.
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