First Amendment juggernaut Marc Randazza is having a very good week. On Wednesday, Professor Donald Marvin Jones a/k/a the "Nutty Professor"voluntarily dismissed his invasion of privacy lawsuit against Randazza's client Above the Law. Today, word comes that WIPO Arbitration Panelist Frederick M. Abbot has denied Glenn Beck's UDRP complaint against another Randazza...
National Public Radio's “All Tech Considered” discusses Randazza Legal Group’s brief regarding Glenn Beck's complaint to the World Intellectual Property Organization about the satire site GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaGirlIn1990.com. The column analyzes the brief’s atypical legal style, in which RLG cites to various Internet memes, including All Your Base Are Belong to Us...
The Boston Herald covers Fox News commentator Glenn Beck’s challenge against Randazza Legal Group client Isaac Eiland-Hall. Beck sued Eiland-Hall for defamation after he set up the satire site GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaGirlIn1990.com. The Boston Herald offers as background: The site, didglennbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990.com, is based on a joke originally aimed at comedian Bob Saget. During...
The Bostonist “can’t get enough” of attorney Marc J. Randazza in its column about an e-mail exchange between Randazza and Glenn Beck’s legal counsel regarding GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaGirlIn1990.com. The column reads: “Today, we discovered an email that Randazza sent to Glenn Beck's attorneys wondering, in lawyer talk, why Glenn Beck hates America, musing, in part ‘It...
Online Media Daily reports on Glenn Beck’s attempts through the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center to have the website GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaGirlIn1990.com taken down. Beck alleges trademark infringement and defamation. Attorney Marc J. Randazza argues in his legal brief: "We are here because Mr. Beck wants respondent's Web site shut...
Ars Technica details the legal brief filed by Marc J. Randazza on behalf of Isaac Eiland-Hall, the man Fox News commentator Glenn Beck threatened with legal action after he put up the website GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaGirlIn1990.com. The post analyzes the question: “In the US, courts have long adopted a "moron in a hurry"...
The Bostonist urges its readers to review the legal brief of Marc J. Randazza, filed on behalf of client Isaac Eiland-Hall, creator of GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaGirlIn1990.com. The post says: The brief, which everybody should read, goes on to explain (hilariously!) the "Gottfried technique" and the idea of an internet meme, including vivid examples...
Adweek outlines Fox News commentator Glenn Beck’s claim that the website GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaGirlIn1990.com infringes upon his trademark and should be shut down. The article describes the site and recounts attorney Marc J. Randazza’s legal brief on the issue. The article says: But this case also makes a political point, noting an interview...
LA Progressive explains how the First Amendment protects satire in a piece about Glenn Beck’s complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center about the website GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaGirlIn1990.com. Attorney Marc Randazza explains: “The Web site is a legitimate criticism site, consists of political satire, and thus the Respondent has...
