FC: Bill Purdy may go to jail today, trademarks WashPostChristian

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Some background:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=purdy
http://washingtontimes.com/business/20030201-4235282.htm

The contempt hearing before U.S. District Judge Ann Montgomery begins today 
at 10 am ET -- in just a few minutes.

-Declan

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From: "William S. Purdy" <wpurdy () attbi com>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: Fw: copy of Trademark Registration recieved today for "The 
Washington Post Christian"
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 07:44:16 -0600

William S. Purdy Sr.
1312 Kassan Drive
South Saint Paul, MN 55075
651-451-1312       Fax 651 - 451-2815
email: wpurdy () attbi com

February 3, 2003

Patrick J. Carome
Clifford M. Sloan
Carrie Eure
Maya Alexandri
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
2445 M Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20037-1420                                      VIA FAX and 
email to Feleica Boyd

Felicia Boyd
Faegre $ Benson
2200 Wells Fargo Center
Minneapolis, MN

Dear Madams and Sirs,

	I received today from the Minnesota Secretary of State a copy of the filed 
Certificate of Registration for the trademark name, "The Washington Post 
Christian".  According to the Minnesotan Secretary of State records the 
Minnesota Trademark Registration for the name "The Washington Post 
Christian" is registered to the non-profit organization The Washington Post 
Christian, the non-profit corporation Please Don't KILL Your Baby, Inc., 
and to me the individual, William S. Purdy.  I serve as President for both 
the non-profit organization The Washington Post Christian, and the 
non-profit corporation Please Don't KILL Your Baby, Inc.  You and your 
clients are hereby on notice that I and the non-profit organization The 
Washington Post Christian and the non-profit corporation Please Don't KILL 
Your Baby, Inc. are the legally registered owners of the name "The 
Washington Post Christian", and any use by your clients is prohibited, 
including use in a domain name.  You and your clients are hereby on notice 
that I and the non-profit organization The Washington Post Christian and 
the non-profit corporation Please Don't KILL Your Baby, Inc. are also the 
legal owners of the United States (Federal) and the Minnesota (state) 
common law trademark for the name "The Washington Post Christian", and any 
use of that name by your clients is strictly forbidden, including use in a 
domain name.  The Federal Trademark Registration for the name "The 
Washington Post Christian" will be filed shortly with the U.S. Patent and 
Trademark Office.

Yours truly,
William S. Purdy, Sr.

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From: "William S. Purdy" <wpurdy () attbi com>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: Fw: two new domain names registered today
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:23:34 -0600

----- Original Message -----
From: William S. Purdy
To: Cliff Sloan ; Olson, Thomas ; Carome, Patrick ; fboyd () faegre com ; 
Alexandri, Maya
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 3:06 PM
Subject: two new domain names registered today

Dear all,

I am notifying you that in my continued effort to be in total and perfect 
compliance with all orders, that Please Don't KILL Your Baby Inc. and I 
have today registered the following two domain names: 
iLIKEtheWashingtonPost.com and iADOREtheWashingtonPost.com.

We are finally having a normal winter here with our first little snow storm.

Yours truly,

William S. Purdy as President of Please Don't KILL Your Baby, Inc.

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From: "William S. Purdy" <wpurdy () attbi com>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: They're coming to take me away....They're coming to take me away....
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 01:54:56 -0600

January 30, 2002

Dear Declan,

I believe I will be going into the hokey on Tuesday, Feb. 4th.  The Court 
ended its contempt order by stating, "A hearing will be held on Tuesday, 
February 4, 2003 at 9:00 a.m.  All parties must be present in person to 
notify the Court of the current status of compliance with its Orders."  And 
before that hearing I have to submit a report to the court "setting forth 
in detail his compliance with this Order..."   I will obey the Court and 
file the report, so there won't be any doubt by Feb. 4, 2002 that I will 
have  NOT taken ANY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION to transfer 
www.TheWashingtonPostCHRISTIAN.com to the Washington Post.  I have made 
that decision regarding that particular domain name and I have publicly 
vowed, "as I live and breathe."

So my question to you Declan and any of your readers that would care to 
answer, "How long will I be in Jail?"  The Order directs the Registrar to 
transfer the domain names within 3 days whether I agree or oppose the 
transfers.  So lets say that by February 4th the 
www.TheWashingtonPostCHRISTIAN.com has already been transferred, will I 
still go to Jail?   Or lets say that it gets transferred while I am in 
Jail, will I then be released?   Can the Court just put me in Jail for 
life, or is there a specific prison term that is prescribed for my "crime" 
of taking NO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ?   I'd like to know if anybody out there 
has any answers for me?  I learned so much the last time I asked your "jail 
experienced" readers about what the Federal Jail experience would be like, 
maybe someone knows how long of a sentence I am looking at here.   I 
registered www.TheWashingtonPostCHRISTIAN.com in France at GANDI.net. The 
French always seem to go the opposite way the U.S. (or anyone else) directs 
them to go, so Lord only knows if it'll ever get transferred, with or 
without my AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.  So with the French involved I am thinking I 
might be in Jail a long time.

Thanks Declan.

Yours, Bill Purdy

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From: "William S. Purdy" <wpurdy () attbi com>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: Fw: ILLEGAL transfers to The Washington Post
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:07:08 -0600


----- Original Message -----
From: William S. Purdy
To: Boyd, Felicia J.
Cc: Carome, Patrick ; Cliff Sloan ; Alexandri, Maya
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: ILLEGAL transfers to The Washington Post

1:40 PM  January 30, 2002

Dear Ms. Boyd,

Thank you for your quick email response regarding your have not provided 
personal service to me of the latest contempt orders.  I must tell you that 
you are all WRONG, and case law is very clear that cannot be held in 
Contempt or charged with violating any Contempt Order if have not 
personally been served it.  What is the problem anyway with you 
people?   Despite what YOU SAY my attorney may or may not have told you, I 
am telling you that I HAVE NOT received personal service of the Contempt 
Order.  My attorney cannot testify for you and will not testify for you, or 
against me!  You must provide me with personal service of the Order, and 
mailing it to me does NOT accomplish that under the law.  As I already told 
you several times, I will NOT be in town tomorrow to receive any mail, nor 
on Saturday, and Sunday there is no mail.  This is a very strange situation 
where the attorneys for the Plaintiffs are "Avoiding Serving" the party of 
a Contempt Order.   I am NOT avoiding service, just the opposite.  Can you 
or you clients not afford the eleven dollar service fee?   Please have your 
server provider call me immediately at 651-451-1312 to arrange with me how 
I can be personally served with the complete contempt orders as soon as 
possible.  You know my schedule for today, and I will cooperate in every 
manner to give you the opportunity to personally serve me with the Contempt 
Orders.

Please also let me know when you have returned the three domain names to me 
that you and The Washington Post ILLEGALLY took from me earlier today.  I 
am particularly concerned about www.BoycottWashingtonPost.com which I have 
every right to have, which has NOT ever been demanded of me by the 
Washington Post to not register or use, which I need to continue to 
exercise my First Amendment Rights to speak on the internet to others to 
boycott The Washington Post, and which to my knowledge the Court has never 
directed the transfer of.  Our nation was founded on boycotts, and for you 
to take my www.BoycottWashingtonPost.com is a violation of my civil rights 
under 42 USC.  I have given you the benefit of the doubt and characterized 
your ILLEGAL transfer as a "mistake", but if you refuse to respond to my 
request, and refuse to correct your mistake, then I and the whole world 
will know that you initiated that ILLEGAL transfer intentionally.  Please 
immediately notify me that you are immediately taking, and will continue to 
take, appropriate action to transfer back to me the three illegal transfers 
that you have initiated, but especially regarding my 
www.BoycottWashingtonPost.com.

I await your immediate reply,

Bill Purdy :)

copy:  To The Washington Times by email
----- Original Message -----
From: Boyd, Felicia J.
To: 'William S. Purdy' ; Carome, Patrick
Cc: Cliff Sloan ; Alexandri, Maya
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:19 PM
Subject: RE: ILLEGAL transfers to The Washington Post

Dear Mr.. Purdy:

I have confirmed with your counsel, Mr.. Altman, that you have received a 
copy of the Court's order and have actual knowledge of its contents.  I 
have also confirmed with him that personal service of the order is not 
required.  As a matter of courtesy, I will send you a copy by regular 
mail.   No additional service is necessary and your understanding of the 
legal requirements regarding the same is simply incorrect.

Sincerely,

Felicia J. Boyd
-----Original Message-----
From: William S. Purdy [mailto:wpurdy () attbi com]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 1:11 PM
To: Carome, Patrick
Cc: Felicia Boyd (E-mail); Cliff Sloan; Alexandri, Maya
Subject: ILLEGAL transfers to The Washington Post

12:50 PM

Dear attorneys representing Plaintiffs and in particular The Washington Post,

Enclosed and copied below is the email I just recieved from North Shore 
Solutions which notifies me that you have initiated the listed transfer of 
domain names.  This is to immediately notify you that YOU have initiated 
transfers to The Washington Post of three domain names that I am informed 
have NOT been granted by the Court.  Those three domain names that you have 
ILLEGALLY transferred to The Washington Post are: WASHINGTONPOST.WS, 
BOYCOTTWASHINGTONPOST.COM, and ABORTWASHINGTONPOST.COM.  Please correct 
your mistake immediately and return my property to me immediately that you 
have ILLEGALLY taken from me so I can continue to speak about The 
Washington Post on the internet in the manner in which I so choose as the 
First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees me the right to 
do.  Please notify me when you have initiated the transfers back to me.

Also, although I have notified Felica Boyd's office that I am home and 
waiting for service, I have NOT received service of the most recent 
contempt orders from the court.  I will be home here until 2:45 PM central 
time, at which time I will be going to downtown Minneapolis to pick-up my 
sister at the Greyhound bus depot.  I will then be returning home by about 
4:30PM.  I will not be available for personal service tomorrow.  Please 
have whomever you are going to have personally serve me with the contempt 
orders to call me at 651-451-1312 so I can arrange to receive personal 
service of the Contempt Orders which as an attorney you well know is 
REQUIRED for any contempt orders.

Your truly,

Bill Purdy :)

----- Original Message -----
From: <Domains () NorthShoreSolutions net>
To: <wpurdy () attbi com>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:52 AM
Subject: DOMAIN OWNERSHIP TRANSFER ->> cede () godaddy com

Dear valued customer:

This email is to confirm the recent transfer of ownership of the following 
domain name(s):

WASHINGTONPOSTCOURT.COM, WASHINGTONPOSTEDITS.COM, 
WASHINGTONPOST-EIGHTHCIRCUIT.COM, WASHINGTONPOST-SUPREMECOURT.COM, 
WASHINGTONPOST-CONSTITUTION.COM, WASHINGTONPOSTMURDERS.COM, 
WASHINGTONPOSTPROCLAIMS.COM, WASHINGTONPOST.WS, WASHINGTONPOSTSPEAKS.COM, 
WASHINGTONPOSTFREEDOM.COM, WASHINGTONPOST-WALTERMONDALE.COM, 
WASHINGTONPOSTJUDGES.COM, WASHINGTONPOST-EDITORIALPAGE.COM, 
THEWASHINGTONPOSTJURY.COM, WASHINGTONPOST-FEDERALCOURT.COM, 
BOYCOTTWASHINGTONPOST.COM, THEWASHINGTONPOSTAPPEAL.COM, 
YOURWASHINGTONPOST.COM, ABORTWASHINGTONPOST.COM, WASHINGTONPOSTSTATES.COM, 
WASHINGTONPOSTCITIZEN.COM, WASHINGTONPOSTSPEECH.COM, 
WASHINGTONPOSTCENSORSHIP.COM, WASHINGTONPOST-FREESPEECH.COM, 
THEWASHINGTONPOSTCHOICE.COM

The transfer of ownership has been completed by the new owner and the 
information has been recorded in our system.

If for any reason this information is incorrect or you feel this transfer 
of ownership request was made in error, please contact us immediately at 
Domains () NorthShoreSolutions net.

Sincerely,
NorthShore Solutions - Your Low Cost Design & Hosting Partner




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