November 19, 2008

Reynolds v. Falk (Letters)

Posted September 25th, 2007 by Sam Bayard

Summary

Threat Type: Correspondence	Date: 08/25/2004
Status: Concluded	Location: California
Disposition: Lawsuit Filed	Verdict/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:	Party Receiving Legal Threat:
Jerry Reynolds	Edward Falk
Type of Party:	Type of Party:
Individual	Individual
Location of Party:	Location of Party:
Minnesota	California
Legal Counsel:	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 on Reynold's lawsuit for more information.)

Falk's Posting on the Lawsuit

CMLP's Database Entry on the Related Suit

Details

Website(s) Involved:	Content Type(s):
Spam Tracking Page	Text
Publication Medium:	Subject Area(s):
Website	Defamation

Court Information & Documents

Location of Filing/Threat:	Source of Law:
California	United States
Court Name:	Court Type:

Case Number:

Relevant Documents:
First Letter (08-24-2004) Second Letter (10-14-2004)

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