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Reynolds v. Falk (Letters) [1]

Submitted by DMLP Staff on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 20:00

Summary

Threat Type: 

Correspondence

Date: 

08/25/2004

Status: 

Concluded

Disposition: 

Lawsuit Filed

Location: 

California

Verdict or Settlement Amount: 

N/A

Legal Claims: 

Defamation
Edward Falk operates a spam watchdog website, the "Spam Tracking Page." On the website, Falk indicated that Jerry Reynolds was associated with a number of spamming companies and pornographic websites. On August 24, 2004, Reynolds's lawyer sent Falk a cease-and-desist letter, threatening... read full description
Parties

Party Issuing Legal Threat: 

Jerry Reynolds

Party Receiving Legal Threat: 

Edward Falk

Type of Party: 

Individual

Type of Party: 

Individual

Location of Party: 

  • Minnesota

Location of Party: 

  • California

Legal Counsel: 

James P. Quinn - Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren, Ltd.
Description

Edward Falk operates a spam watchdog website, the "Spam Tracking Page." On the website, Falk indicated that Jerry Reynolds was associated with a number of spamming companies and pornographic websites.

On August 24, 2004, Reynolds's lawyer sent Falk a cease-and-desist letter, threatening to sue for defamation and unspecified violations of the Lanham Act if Falk did not remove the offending content within 10 days. Falk made some minor changes to the website, but left the bulk of the material relating to Reynolds unchanged. On October 14, 2004, Reynolds's lawyer sent another letter, again claiming that material on Falk's website defamed Reynolds. This letter threatened suit (again) if Falk did not remove the entire website from the Internet within 10 days.

Reynolds filed suit anonymously in February 2006 (Please see the CMLP database entry [2] on Reynold's lawsuit for more information.)

Related Links: 

MLRC's Legal Actions and Developments Involving Blogs [3]

Falk's Posting on the Lawsuit [4]

CMLP's Database Entry on the Related Suit [2]

Details

Web Site(s) Involved: 

Spam Tracking Page [5]

Content Type: 

  • Text

Publication Medium: 

Website

Subject Area: 

  • Defamation
Court Information & Documents

Jurisdiction: 

  • California

Source of Law: 

  • United States

Relevant Documents: 

PDF icon 2004-08-24-First Letter.pdf [6]
PDF icon 2004-10-14-Second Letter.pdf [7]

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Source URL (modified on 08/20/2014 - 11:04pm): https://www.dmlp.org/threats/reynolds-v-falk-letters

Links
[1] https://www.dmlp.org/threats/reynolds-v-falk-letters
[2] https://www.dmlp.org/reynolds-v-falk-lawsuit
[3] http://www.medialaw.org/bloggerlawsuits
[4] http://www.rahul.net/falk/Nz/lawsuit.html
[5] http://www.rahul.net/falk
[6] https://www.dmlp.org/sites/dmlp.org/files/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2004-08-24-First%20Letter.pdf
[7] https://www.dmlp.org/sites/dmlp.org/files/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2004-10-14-Second%20Letter.pdf