FARAH, et al. v ESQUIRE MAGAZINE, INC., et al.

realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23585

Is now docketed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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U.S. District Court
District of Columbia (Washington, DC)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:11-cv-01179-RMC

FARAH et al v. ESQUIRE MAGAZINE, INC. et al
Assigned to: Judge Rosemary M. Collyer
Demand: $20,000,000
Cause: 15:1125 Trademark Infringement (Lanham Act)
Date Filed: 06/28/2011
Jury Demand: Plaintiff
Nature of Suit: 890 Other Statutory Actions
Jurisdiction: Federal Question

Plaintiff
JOSEPH FARAH

represented by Larry E. Klayman
KLAYMAN LAW FIRM
2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Suite 345
Washington, DC 20006
(310) 595-0800
Fax: (310) 651-3025
Email: leklayman@yahoo.com
LEAD ATTORNEY
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

Plaintiff
JEROME CORSI

represented by Larry E. Klayman
(See above for address)
LEAD ATTORNEY
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

Plaintiff
WORLDNETDAILY.COM

represented by Larry E. Klayman
(See above for address)
LEAD ATTORNEY
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

Plaintiff
WND BOOKS

represented by Larry E. Klayman
(See above for address)
LEAD ATTORNEY
ATTORNEY TO BE NOTICED

V.

Defendant
ESQUIRE MAGAZINE, INC.

Defendant
HEARST COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Defendant
MARK WARREN

Date Filed # Docket Text

06/28/2011 1 COMPLAINT against ESQUIRE MAGAZINE, INC., HEARST COMMUNICATIONS, INC., MARK WARREN ( Filing fee $ 350, receipt number 4616040100) filed by WORLDNETDAILY.COM, JOSEPH FARAH, JEROME CORSI, WND BOOKS. (Attachments: # 1 Civil Cover Sheet)(jf, ) (Entered: 06/29/2011)

06/28/2011 Summons (3) Issued as to ESQUIRE MAGAZINE, INC., HEARST COMMUNICATIONS, INC., MARK WARREN. (jf, ) (Entered: 06/29/2011)

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:13 pm

MORE POPCORN PLEASE

I think this is gonna be tons of fun to watch.

DaveMuckey · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:21 pm

Where might one look to find figures for Corsi's book sales on his body of lies work?

editorkorir · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:23 pm

She's a Bush judge
"Judge Rosemary M. Collyer was appointed to the United States District Court in January 2003"
No indication which socialist is clerking for her this term.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:24 pm

Wait a cotton pickin' minute! Did Esquire put a question mark after the title? So they can say anything they fucking please according to Wing Nut Daily rulz? Look at #12. These fuckwads are so used to putting question marks on headlines they added one that was not there in the Esquire article. =))

This is the original Esquire article: BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!

and in #12 in the complaint it reads:

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BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves?

Farah assumed that Esquire was as much of a bunch of chickenshits as they are. :lol:

realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23585

Reality Check wrote:

Wait a cotton picken minute! Did Esquire put a question mark after the title? So they can say anything they fucking please according to Wing Nut Daily rulz? Look at #12. These fuckwads are so used to putting question marks on headlines they added one that was not there in the Esquire article. =))

This is the original Esquire article: BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves!

and in #12 in the complaint it reads:

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BREAKING: Jerome Corsi's Birther Book Pulled from Shelves?

Farah assumed that Esquire was as much of a bunch of chickenshits as they are. :lol:

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:02 pm

If the lawsuit isn't settled or dismissed we're going to find out how many copies of this piece of trash were printed, the costs of doing so, how many were sold, whether any were bought by WND to inflate its sales numbers, and lots of other delightful, interesting stuff.

In addition, since the defendant will be out to prove the book wouldn't sell well, its veracity will also be on trial as a book that is a complete lie will arguably sell less well than a truthful book (or maybe it's the other way around).

Ther bottom line is, as others have posted, this lawsuit is a win-win for us. -xx

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:17 pm

Hey Stern,

What's the chances that when this is all over we'll be seeing something like this?

World Net Daily
A wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Inc.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:19 pm

GreatGrey wrote:

Hey Stern,

What's the chances that when this is all over we'll be seeing something like this?

World Net Daily
A wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Inc.

I don't think any legitimate news operation would want to be within 100 miles of the sleaze machine that is WND. Larry Klayman, the attorney for WND and the "brains" behind Judicial Watch, is going to get his ass handed to him.

bob · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:20 pm

From Larry Klayman's wikipedia page:

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Larry Elliot Klayman (born July 20, 1951) is an American attorney and activist. He is known as the founder and former Chairman of Judicial Watch, a public interest and non-profit law firm, which attained notoriety through the initiation of 18 civil lawsuits against the Clinton Administration, and subsequently, an unsuccessful lawsuit against Vice-President Dick Cheney in order to obtain information about the White House's energy task force.

In September 2003, Klayman left the organization to run for the United States Senate from Florida. He lost in the Republican primary. In 2006 Klayman sued Judicial Watch and its president Tom Fitton charging financial and other mismanagement issues which damaged Judicial Watch, the donors and Klayman.

[...]

Klayman has authored the books Fatal Neglect and Whores: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment, and [highlight]writes a weekly column for the conservative news website WorldNetDaily[/highlight].

In April 2011, Klayman filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social media website of "negligence" for not responding quickly enough to calls to take down an anti-Israel "Third Intifada" page and [highlight]demanding $1 billion in damages[/highlight]. Facebook representatives dismissed the suit as "without merit". The lawsuit is ongoing.

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:25 pm

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

GreatGrey wrote:

Hey Stern,

What's the chances that when this is all over we'll be seeing something like this?

World Net Daily
A wholly owned subsidiary of Hearst Inc.

I don't think any legitimate news operation would want to be within 100 miles of the sleaze machine that is WND. Larry Klayman, the attorney for WND and the "brains" behind Judicial Watch, is going to get his ass handed to him.

I just thought Hearst might like to get control of WND just to shut it down is all

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:33 pm

From Wikipedia:

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In April 2011, Klayman filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social media website of "negligence" for not responding quickly enough to calls to take down an anti-Israel "Third Intifada" page and demanding $1 billion in damages. Facebook representatives dismissed the suit as "without merit". The lawsuit is ongoing.

I'm surprised he didn't demand to be paid in gold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Klayman

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verbalobe · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:02 pm

While we're on Klayman:

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Stone and Jensen worked together in 2003 in the Florida senate campaign of Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch who says Stone took him "to the cleaners" in a campaign that wiped him out financially (he finished with one percent of the vote). Klayman calls Jensen, who was his campaign treasurer, one of Stone's "dirty dozen."

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2728&p=184848#p184848
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninsca ... ne_kri.php

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Jensen has also sued Judicial Watch Larry Klayman for slander (after briefly working on Klayman's ill-fated Florida Senate run in 2004).

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=4594&p=163267#p163267
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.c ... r_army.php

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Klayman also has brought cases against Dick Cheney, Osama bin Laden, Fidel Castro and the Teamsters, as well as his own mother.

http://overlawyered.com/2007/05/where-a ... man-watch/

Edit: Most of the above thanks to someone named mimi.

esseff44 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:02 pm

Jason Linkens at HuffPo took notice of the newest Birther suit :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/2 ... 87238.html

He says that what really hurt the sale of the book was the production of the LFBC and not the publication of a piece of satire in Esquire.

It will be interesting to see how they will attempt to prove damages. However, isn't their real goal to get their vile smears out in the public eye in another splash of publicity? Do they really think they will come out ahead in this case?

John Thomas8 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:07 pm

A brief aside, it is funny how Foggy can make a single post somewhere we both know about and morons come out drooling like professional-grade birfertards.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:15 pm

What's Dogbite's Bacon number to WND?

lyssandri · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:15 pm

esseff44 wrote:

Jason Linkens at HuffPo took notice of the newest Birther suit :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/2 ... 87238.html

He says that what really hurt the sale of the book was the production of the LFBC and not the publication of a piece of satire in Esquire.

Maybe Farah can sue Obama for that - claiming he intentionally timed the release of his LFBC to damage the reputation of WND and sales of the book. The fun part would be the twisted logic behind claiming that Obama released a forged birth certificate to damage sales of a book claiming his birth certificate is fake! LOL! He might actually be able to get discovery so he can prove the LFBC is fake in order to support the claim. Then when it turns out to be genuine, his whole claim falls apart (not to mention the birther movement) and truth, justice and the American Way once again reign supreme....

Ok. Look. For some reason, up until about noon today, I was only awake for 5 of the previous 36 hours, so my thoughts are maybe a bit jumbled up with dreams, but hey, even if it's impractical (or impossible) ya gotta admit it's a funny idea, eh?

raicha · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:27 pm

thorswitch wrote:

esseff44 wrote:

Jason Linkens at HuffPo took notice of the newest Birther suit :

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/2 ... 87238.html

He says that what really hurt the sale of the book was the production of the LFBC and not the publication of a piece of satire in Esquire.

Maybe Farah can sue Obama for that - claiming he intentionally timed the release of his LFBC to damage the reputation of WND and sales of the book. The fun part would be the twisted logic behind claiming that Obama released a forged birth certificate to damage sales of a book claiming his birth certificate is fake! LOL! He might actually be able to get discovery so he can prove the LFBC is fake in order to support the claim. Then when it turns out to be genuine, his whole claim falls apart (not to mention the birther movement) and truth, justice and the American Way once again reign supreme....

Ok. Look. For some reason, up until about noon today, I was only awake for 5 of the previous 36 hours, so my thoughts are maybe a bit jumbled up with dreams, but hey, even if it's impractical (or impossible) ya gotta admit it's a funny idea, eh?

No, no, no - Obama timed the release of LFBC to ruin Orly's oral argument before the 9th Circuit. Just ask, she'll tell ya. :lol:

GreatGrey · **Posted:** Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:47 pm

Please, please, please, .... [-o<

Let Hearst/Esquire hire Perkins Coie for their defense.

Wolf · **Joined:** Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:55 pm **Posts:** 198

Your honour, if I may, I'd like to present the surprise witnesses to the court:

RTH10260 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 5:49 am

mimi in the WND thread wrote:

Hey... when I searched "mara" in TFB, I see she was quoted in The Globe tabloid. That must be where Corsi dug her up.

Meanwhile...
. . .
haha!

go see:
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2 ... 0-million/

This following comment in above blog entry caught my eye:

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3:38 pm on 06/29/11
joshuamking
I wonder if the birthers know that DC has a brand new anti-SLAPP law: http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/ ... t-columbia

Maybe book sales will be brisk enough to allow the Plaintiffs to cover Forbes’

http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/06/29/birthers-sue-esquire-over-parody-seeking-120-million/comment-page-1/#comment-3880

realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23585

The brain trust at drkate's batshit crazy blog "seems" to think this is some sort of birther suit or that no lawsuit ever gets decided... or sumpin'.

http://drkatesview.wordpress.com/2011/0 ... /#comments

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tiger 7 June 29, 2011 at 8:28 pm

The universal law of random perversity seems to be working in our favor for a change—the WND – Esquire flap may well be the opening that has been so elusive. [highlight]Esquire really stepped in a bucket when they challenged Farah’s veracity regarding the BC authenticity.[/highlight] Also, bho is going off-scale in his attack on Congress and everyone of a logical mind. The noose is dropping over his head and he knows it—and is getting panicy. He has lost his cool and will make some serious blunders.

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Voco Indubium June 29, 2011 at 8:41 pm

RE: WND suing Esquire

It will be interesting to see what excuse the judge will use to avoid ruling on merit. No judge in the US is allowed to rule on merit and trigger discovery
Some of your hopes are not realistic.

Reality Check · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:22 am

Cross posted from the WND thread:

Terry Krepel from ConWebWatch attended the press conference and has an article up on it.

The WND Birther Lawsuit Dog and Pony Show (And The Question Joseph Farah Won't Answer)

As timing would have it Terry will be on RC Radio tonight. :-bd

Check out this exchange:

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Finally, I tried to ask Farah if he could confirm Tim Adams' assertion that the affidavit he signed claiming that he had been told that no copy of Obama's birth certificate existed in state files was created by WND-affiliated lawyers. [Tim Adams admitted that on RC Radio] Here's how that exchange went:

FARAH: I really don't -- Terry, If you want to obsess about stuff like that, I invite you to do so. I would really like to focus on why the president of the United States and the White House are issuing bogus birth certificates rather than why somebody at WorldNetDaily, which lawyer they consulted to --

ME: But if you're creating news to forward the story --

FARAH: Terry, we all know your work.

ME: You're creating news and not reporting it.

FARAH: We appreciate all of the attention that you devote to WND.com. Thanks very much.

And with that the press conference came to an abrupt end.

realist · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:33 pm **Posts:** 23585

Sterngard Friegen wrote:

What's Dogbite's Bacon number to WND?

lyssandri · **Posted:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:24 am

That same Conwebblog post notes:

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I pointed out to Corsi that, his and Farah's assertions to the contrary, there are people who will defend the authenticity of the PDF birth certificate or at least rebut its attackers, such as Dr. Conspiracy's detailed rebuttal of the Ken Vogt analysis that Corsi devoted three WND articles to. Corsi's response was a curious one: After calling Dr. Conspiracy "one of my favorites," Corsi said, 'I'll be writing about Dr. Conspiracy in the next few days. I'll be exposing his background, his entire credentials, his involvement with his company. I've got a detailed -- I just haven't had time to write it up."

When I asked Corsi why he's personally attacking his critics by digging into their backgrounds, Corsi suddenly softened his tone: "I'm sorry, I said I would evaluate his credentials. It's not a personal attack, but we're going to evaluate his credentials in his point-by-point."

Le sigh...

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

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