Posts Tagged ‘Free Speech’

Ok, stop me if you’ve heard this one. A Republican walks into a bar with a duck under his arm. He turns to the bartender and . . . Oops. I forgot. The GOP is a few funny bones short of a sense of humor these days. As Public Citizen attorney Paul Alan Levy writes on the Consumer Law & Policy Blog, the Republican National Committee is in a huff over some T-shirts and bumper stickers that bear their Elephant logo or the acronym “GOP.” It seems the RNC has trademarked both logo and name and they’re threatening to sue the folks over at CafePress.com for allowing its users to sell shirts both supporting and making fun of Republicans.

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Paul McMann, a Boston builder who got on the wrong side of a former client will just have to suck it up and live with her online gripes about his services. Public Citizen, which represents the woman, won its case in front of an arbitrator who hears disputes about Internet domains. McMann has already sued three other times to have her sites — PaulMcMannSucks.com and PaulMcMann.com — taken down. He has lost twice, while the third suit is pending. The use of the URLs and her criticisms posted there are protected under the First Amendment, said Public Citizen attorney Greg Beck.

When Seneca Technologies President Will White won his public records lawsuit against the state of West Virginia, he did what any Web entrepreneur would do with his newly-acquired bevy of local tax maps — he posted the information on his website. That didn’t sit well with Kanawha County Tax Assessor Phyllis Gatson, who is asking a court to force Seneca to take the maps off the Web. Why should you care?

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