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FC: Manhattan Bagel tries to shut down critical "fraud" web site
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 01:35:50 -0400
[Duncan is a lawyer and a longtime politechnical. If anyone sets up mirrors on freenet/gnutella/mojonation or elsewhere, please email me with the relevant info that I can redistribute. It might be useful if someone turned the NewWorldCoffeeFraud.com into a .tar.gz file to aid in replication. --Declan] ----- Forwarded message from Duncan Frissell <frissell () panix com> ----- From: Duncan Frissell <frissell () panix com> Subject: New World Coffee Disparagement Sites to be Shutdown? Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:40:28 -0400 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. ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- the moderated mailing list of politics and technology You may redistribute this message freely if it remains intact. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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