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Balsam v. Trancos, Inc.

California Court of Appeals, First District, First Division
Mar 21, 2012
No. A128485 (Cal. Ct. App. Mar. 21, 2012)

Opinion


DANIEL L. BALSAM, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. TRANCOS, INC., et al., Defendants and Appellants. A128485 California Court of Appeals, First District, First Division March 21, 2012

San Mateo County Super. Ct. No. CIV471797

ORDER MODIFYING OPINION AND DENYING REHEARING

Margulies, Acting P.J.

It is ordered that the opinion filed herein on February 24, 2012, be modified as follows:

1. On page 5 of the opinion, at the end of the third and last full paragraph, after the sentence ending “ ‘phoning and badgering us, ’.” insert as footnote 9, the following footnote, which will require the renumbering of all subsequent

9 There was no testimony as to how Costeli chose the actual domain names. It may be inferred one motivation was to avoid disclosing Trancos was the sender. None of the domain names contained any variation or hint of Trancos’s name. If the names themselves connected Trancos to the mailing, private registration would be pointless. Other potential motivations for the whimsical name choices-including evading spam filters and avoiding accidental infringement of names used by other businesses or web sites-are not in issue in this case.

2. On page 11, first full paragraph, in the sixth sentence, beginning “Further, unlike Kleffman, ” change the word “admitted” to “salient.”

3. On page 13, in the carryover paragraph, substitute the following sentence for the sentence beginning “Thus, Trancos selected ....”:

Thus, the nonsensical domain name “misstepoutcome.com” neither discloses Trancos’s name nor can it be linked to Trancos using any public database.

4. On page 13, in the carryover paragraph, delete the second-to-last sentence, beginning “Nelson specifically ....”

There is no change in the judgment.

Appellant’s petition for rehearing is denied.


Summaries of

Balsam v. Trancos, Inc.

California Court of Appeals, First District, First Division
Mar 21, 2012
No. A128485 (Cal. Ct. App. Mar. 21, 2012)
Case details for

Balsam v. Trancos, Inc.

Case Details

Full title:DANIEL L. BALSAM, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. TRANCOS, INC., et al.…

Court:California Court of Appeals, First District, First Division

Date published: Mar 21, 2012

Citations

No. A128485 (Cal. Ct. App. Mar. 21, 2012)