Article from The New York Times (subscription required):
A Louisiana law school is giving one of its students an unusually comprehensive legal education. In addition to offering him the standard classes and exams, it is suing him.
The dispute centers on a Web site maintained by Douglas Dorhauer, a student at the Paul M. Herbert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The site is called lsulaw.com, and it includes a school calendar, law-related links and comments by Mr. Dorhauer, some of them critical of the law school.
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The lawsuit says Mr. Dorhauer is trading on the school's good will and confusing people. It asks that he be prohibited from using the site's name and requests an unspecified amount of money and the law school's legal fees.
UPDATED 1155 ET 06 May 2002
Ernest Miller adds:
Slashdot readers alternately deride and defend LSU (LSU Law School Sues Student Over Website). One of the Slashdot commentors, Prof. Michael Froomkin of the University of Miami School of Law, explains succinctly why a trademark infringment lawsuit against a non-commercial website is almost certain to fail (Non-commercial is a near-total defense). LSULAW.com is ridiculously non-commercial: no banner ads, no donations boxes, no CafePress t-shirts for sale, and there isn't even a resume for the website owner. Unless the court in this case pulls a Napster (website traffic = commercial use), LSULAW.com doesn't have a worry. Prediction: Law School drops case in order not to be embarassed by losing to a student and being held up for ridicule in the New York Times again.