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Scott Boras
Hall Of Shame Member
Added December 19, 2006

Who is Scott Boras? Does anyone really care? It appears he is a higher than mighty muckety-muck who may or may not be monitoring the children at Scott Boras, Corporation. Wonder who they named it after?
Scott Boras (in our opinion it should be spelled Bor-Ass) is an expensive sports agent who gets the big bucks for mostly baseball players. Big bucks. You would think he would spend it on a staff who understood the First Amendment and the Fair Use Doctrine.
Seems eBay sellers owen*and*emma are Red Sox fans and they really didn't like former Red Sox player Johnny Damon going over to the hated Yankees. So, they marketed a onesie with the wording on it Damon Sucks. When you click to see the onesie, please note there is no baseball logo on the onesie anywhere. her listing did mention the Yankees and the Red Sox but where is the crime there?
So what was the heinous crime that got Scott Boras membership here? On June 9, 2006, his corporation ordered eBay to terminate the acution for the onesie claiming Right of Publicity. What a crock, but a novel crock. She emailed Tabberone for assistance.
Scott Boras Corp did not reply to any of owen*and*emma's attempts at emails. She called them and they wouldn't talk to her.
Enter Greg Beck, a lawyer for the Public Citizen's Litigation Group out of Washington, D.C. Voilá, the lawyers for Borass saw the light and talked settlement.
She emailed Tabberone on July 20, 2006, to let us know her auctions had been reinstated.
Did someone say negative publicity? A number of news organizations carried the story, including ESPN, the newspaper South Coast Today, and MSNBC, among others.
According to attorney Ryan Lubner, "it was the product description that was the issue". Another less inventive crock. A lawyer lie as we call it. If the "descriprion was an issue, why not contact the seller and talk about it instead of issuing a Notice Of Claimed Infringment which places the seller's business in jeopardy? Why not return her emails you nitwit? Why? Because, in our opinion, you are another one of those arrogant assshole attorneys who thrive on hurting people who you don't feel can, or will, fight back. Proof? You folded right after being contacted by an attorney who was willing to take your sorry ass directly into court without passing go.
The Damon Sucks onesies are on eBay thanks to Greg Beck and the Public Citizen's Litigation Group.
We think attorney Ryan Lubner needs to re-attend Con Law 101. He slept through it the first time.

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