Kassel

ORDER GRANTING RECONSIDERATION AND AMENDING ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART PLAINTIFF’S APPLICATION FOR A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

Plaintiff J.K. Harris & Company, LLC moved for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and then a preliminary injunction enjoining Defendants from 1) using the trade name “J.K. Harris” on Defendants’ “taxes.com” web site; 2) publishing defamatory, untrue or misleading information about Plaintiff; 3) using HTML code and computer programming techniques to di vert Internet users looking for Plaintiffs web site to Defendants’ web site; and 4) using any editorial position at Internet directories to promote Defendants’ business and interfere with Plaintiffs business. The Court granted Plaintiffs request for a TRO and then, in an Order dated March 22, 2002, the Court granted in part and denied in part Plaintiffs motion for a preliminary injunction. The Court enjoined Plaintiff from “using more of Plaintiffs trade name than is reasonably necessary to identify that it is Plaintiffs services being described” and from making or disseminating certain identified allegedly false statements. March 22, 2002 Order at 21-22. Defendants then requested that they and…