A ruling in favor of a great website

EStreetJoe · Feb 12, 2009

Three women sued the book put out by the owners of a website claiming defamation of character.
The NJ Supreme Court just ruled yesterday that the women lose their case as the photos are protected by the first amendment.
The website is SFW (unless some pictures of women in bikinis are NSFW)
http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

JR · Dec 15, 2014

This is my favourite duo although I'd be more inclined to call is loser douchebag with skanky white chick

Poor parents.

The Big Ragu · Feb 12, 2009

Some judge really wrote this:

In light of these guidelines, the Court has carefully scrutinized the book and the context in which the photographs appear. On page 70 the title heading is “The Federbag”. It contains three paragraphs, all of which describe a type of male who the author considers a “douche celebrity.” He described a federbag as “famous in their own minds, they live the celebrity rock star life style while being neither celebrity nor rock star.” None of the paragraphs has anything to say about the plaintiffs in the photograph. With respect to the photograph depicting the plaintiff Pauline Pakos it is located on page 180 and comes under the title heading “Step 5: Leave New Jersey”. Under this heading the author describes why in his opinion leaving New Jersey is an essential step in “the de-douchification process” of a male. Again, nothing is mentioned about plaintiff Pakos any of the females depicted in the photographs contained in that chapter.

The book begins by defining a “douchebag” and including a definition which is not recognized in the dictionary. In fact, it appears to be one made up in order to be humorous. At the end of the book, in his acknowledgment, the author states “I must give a special round of thanks to all the participants and contributors on the blog whose enthusiasm and hilarious commentary mocking the douchescrote and celebrating the hott have kept me going.” On the rear cover there is a quote “Douchebags need a smack.” This quote is attributable to “Gandhi”.

The Court concludes that there is no actionable defamation. The book is replete with obvious attempts at satirical humor. For example, how can a person reasonably believe that in 1981 archaeologist Renee Emile Bellaqua uncovered in a cave in Gali Israel a highly controversial Third Century religious scroll suggesting that the “douchey/hotty” coupling was a troublesome facet in early social religious structures? Or would a reasonable person believe that Jean-Paul Sartre stated “man is condemned to be douchey because once thrown into the world he is responsible for every douchey thing that he does”? Or that John Hopkins has a Department of Scrotology or that there was a Theban King Seqenenra Tag, in ancient Egypt known as “gito of the southern city”? An examination of the book reveals that old photographs of paintings are doctored to suit the satire in the book. The author also defines a completely fictitious time period “BG”, before the actor Richie Grieco and “AG” after the actor’s impact on the douchebag male style.
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Buck · Feb 12, 2009

The case should have been denied when filed.

imjustagirl · Feb 12, 2009

That board has the best name ever: Waiting for Godouche.

cranberry · Feb 12, 2009

The Big Ragu said:

Some judge really wrote this:

In light of these guidelines, the Court has carefully scrutinized the book and the context in which the photographs appear. On page 70 the title heading is “The Federbag”. It contains three paragraphs, all of which describe a type of male who the author considers a “douche celebrity.” He described a federbag as “famous in their own minds, they live the celebrity rock star life style while being neither celebrity nor rock star.” None of the paragraphs has anything to say about the plaintiffs in the photograph. With respect to the photograph depicting the plaintiff Pauline Pakos it is located on page 180 and comes under the title heading “Step 5: Leave New Jersey”. Under this heading the author describes why in his opinion leaving New Jersey is an essential step in “the de-douchification process” of a male. Again, nothing is mentioned about plaintiff Pakos any of the females depicted in the photographs contained in that chapter.

The book begins by defining a “douchebag” and including a definition which is not recognized in the dictionary. In fact, it appears to be one made up in order to be humorous. At the end of the book, in his acknowledgment, the author states “I must give a special round of thanks to all the participants and contributors on the blog whose enthusiasm and hilarious commentary mocking the douchescrote and celebrating the hott have kept me going.” On the rear cover there is a quote “Douchebags need a smack.” This quote is attributable to “Gandhi”.

The Court concludes that there is no actionable defamation. The book is replete with obvious attempts at satirical humor. For example, how can a person reasonably believe that in 1981 archaeologist Renee Emile Bellaqua uncovered in a cave in Gali Israel a highly controversial Third Century religious scroll suggesting that the “douchey/hotty” coupling was a troublesome facet in early social religious structures? Or would a reasonable person believe that Jean-Paul Sartre stated “man is condemned to be douchey because once thrown into the world he is responsible for every douchey thing that he does”? Or that John Hopkins has a Department of Scrotology or that there was a Theban King Seqenenra Tag, in ancient Egypt known as “gito of the southern city”? An examination of the book reveals that old photographs of paintings are doctored to suit the satire in the book. The author also defines a completely fictitious time period “BG”, before the actor Richie Grieco and “AG” after the actor’s impact on the douchebag male style.
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At least it won't be difficult to locate in the future. Just put "douchescrote" in the FindLaw search function and you probably won't get more than a few dozen responses from which to choose.

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