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 client, Isaac Eiland-Hall, the man behind glennbeckrapedandmurdereda younggirlin1990.com. (See our previous posts here and here.)
In the decision (pdf), Panelist Abbot ruled that Eiland-Hall's domain name was a "legitimate noncommercial or fair use of [Beck's] mark," dooming Beck's claim: read more »

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