Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. v. Faber

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Prohibiting [the defendant] from using Bally’s name in the machine readable code would effectively isolate him from all but the most savvy of Internet users.”
• discussing “www.compupix.com/ballysucks”: “trademark owners may not quash unauthorized use of the mark by a person expressing a point of view”
• “[t]he Internet is not without its growing pains. It is an efficient means for business to disseminate information, but it also affords critics of those businesses an equally efficient means of disseminating commentary.”
• term “sucks” loaded with criticism

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).