Eating Tasty News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

sorry-try-again dept Mon, Apr 17th 2006 11:01am Carlo Longino Jerry Falwell s been waging an ongoing battle against people that run Web sites critical of him. His latest fight saw him sue the owner of fallwell.com, a site that decries his views on homosexuality, alleging it was typosquatting improperly drawing visitors by using a common misspelling of his official falwell.com site. A Federal appeals court disagreed, and now the Supreme Court has refused to hear the case, backing up the lower court s ruling. Of course, the good reverend has never really been able to accept criticism, and since he can t get around the First Amendment, he s had to resort to other tactics, like alleging trademark abuse. But the judges in the appeals court made it clear that the criticism site made no attempt to confuse visitors, even including ample disclaimers and links to Falwell s official site. It s interesting to note that the same appeals court ruled against the operator of the People Eatin

Carlo longinoJerry falwellSupreme courtTechdirt teamSupreme court denies falwell typosquatting caseSupreme court denies falwellFirst amendmentEating tastyEthical treatmentகார்லோ லாங்கினோஉச்ச நீதிமன்றம்முதல் திருத்தம்நெறிமுறை சிகிச்சை