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Law Firm & Ex-Associate Litigate Badmouth Blog Battle in State & Federal Court

Posted Nov 10, 2009, 02:54 pm CST
By Martha Neil

A war of words between Levinson Axelrod and ex-associate Edward Harrington Heyburn is now in litigation.

The New Jersey-based personal injury law firm filed an order to show cause in state court in Middlesex County Superior Court last week, seeking a shutdown order concerning the website in which Heyburn criticizes his former employer, reports the New Jersey Law Journal.

But within less than a day Heyburn had removed the action to federal court in Trenton, where the request for a temporary restraining order apparently still remains unresolved. A claim in the firm's filing that Heyburn's site violates the federal Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act and the Lanham Act provided the requisite federal question jurisdiction for removal,… Continue reading...



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