UCLA v. Tom Wilde [1]

On August 6, 2009, the Office of General Counsel at UCLA sent Tom Wilde a cease and desist letter alleging that his website, Weeding 101 at UCLA, infringed and diluted the University's registered trademark in the letters "UCLA" and that use of the UCLA name constituted "a criminal offense under California Education Code, section 92000." The letter demanded thatWilde cancel the domain name registrations for ucla-weeding101.com and ucla-weeding101.info and take down the websites located at these domains on or before August 17, 2009.  At issue was a website that Wilde launched in July 2009 that contained information about Wilde's expulsion in 1996 from UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies and critiqued UCLA's student termination policies.   

On August 14, 2009 the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) intervened by writing a response to UCLA on behalf of Wilde, objecting to UCLA's demands on First Amendment grounds. On August 20, 2009 UCLA withdrew its demands.