Supreme Court won't hear Falwell's appeal

[brooklynite]

WASHINGTON - Evangelist Jerry Falwell on Monday lost a Supreme Court appeal of a case that sought to shut down a Web site with a similar name but opposite views on gays.

Falwell claims that a gay New York City man improperly draws people to a site by using a common misspelling of the reverend's name as the site's domain name.

A federal judge sided with Falwell, who runs a Virginia-based ministries, on grounds that Christopher Lamparello's domain name was nearly identical to the trademark bearing Falwell's name and could confuse Web surfers.

But last year, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disagreed and said that Lamparello was free to operate his "gripe site" about Falwell's views on gays at http://www.fallwell.com. Lamparello "clearly created his Web site intending only to provide a forum to criticize ideas, not to steal customers," the court said.

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/14361845.htm

[ContraBass Black]

1. And now,

A whole lot more of us have heard of http://fallwell.com.

[Cyrano]

2. Man, those heathens on the SCOTUS have set themselves up for a

major league smiting.

Get out of D.C. Run for you lives. Smiting may just be the start. Let's not forget locusts, plagues, and fundies just aching to cast the first stone.

[1monster]

6. and hurricanes and tornados!!! Don't forget those! Falwell is always

telling us that extreme storms are God's punishment upon us for not following Jerry's edicts with alacrity and enthusiasm.

[VegasWolf]

8. Damn activist judges.

[Orrex]

3. I've never understood Falwell's appeal, either...

nyuk nyuk nyuk

But it's remarkable to me that the Right-leaning court missed this chance to placate the faithful.

[Der Blaue Engel]

4. Go ahead, Jerry

Call them customers and admit you're in it for profit. :rofl:

[SKKY]

5. The Supreme Court won't hear his appeal?

I don't even think The People's Court should hear it.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. Poor old FatFaceFalwell

Seems he's really good at dishing it out, but, like all bullies and thugs, he sure can't take it.

He's batting 0 for 2 at the Supreme Court, and I sure do hope Larry Flynt (one of my personal heroes) is having a HUGE laugh about this one tonight.

Remember this?

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=485&invol=46

[Oilwellian]

10. You beat me to it

While reading the thread, I visualized Larry Flynt laughing like a loon. :D

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. It doesn't matter, my friend

I LOVE YOUR SCREEN NAME!!!!!

Way to go ..............

[IndianaGreen]

9. Fallwell.com: "What would Jesus do?"

From the anti-Falwell site:

"What would Jesus do?"

During his earthly ministry . . .

Jesus never called a gay person a sinner.
Jesus never called a gay person immoral.
Jesus never asked a gay person to change.
Jesus never condemned a single gay person.
Jesus never judged a single gay person.
Jesus never quoted scripture against a single gay person.

http://www.fallwell.com/fallwell8.html