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| The Skippy Story For Kids |
IMAGES
CENSORED
The SKIPPY
Title
And The Cute
Paramount Movie
Picture Of Skippy
Have Been Taken
Down As A Result Of
Permission To Use
Them Being Revoked
Per The Outrageous
ORDER
9-7-99
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Skippy- ©1930-1999
See some of the cartoons of
Skippy® created by Percy Crosby.
CPC / Bestfoods:
Legal thugs (opinion) www.sughrue.com
have over 250
hits on this site. I hope they enjoy reading it
as much as I enjoy reporting it.
This site received 12,000 hits in it's first week of operation.
10-29-2000 Scottsman.com said in "Claws out as courts try to frame ponder the law of the jungle" by Jim Cruickshank in New York Sunday 29 October 2000 Scotland on Sunday "She won her recent fight against Bestfoods’ attempt to purge her website where she has repeated her claims that the trademark was stolen in 1933 by Rosefield Packing, which was later bought by Bestfoods." "Yesterday Tibetts said this was now Unilever’s problem." "The origins of this go back to the final decision that the US Patent and Trade Mark Office decided in favour of Skippy Inc founded by my father which absolutely prohibited the registration of the Skippy corporate trade name as a federal trade mark for peanut butter," she said. "The damages are incalculable." "Unilever said that if she goes ahead with a claim they will fight it in court." THE BOYCOTT will be reinvigorated & directed at all Unilever interests. Even More Children Will Be Telling Their Classes And Parents To SAY NO To Skippy Peanut Butter And Any Other Unilever Products ! ! ! ! |
The Good Guys Win ! ! CPC/Bestfoods loses. Judge Williams looked so bad that he finally removed himself from the case! On September 6th, 2000 the new judge, Albert V. Bryan, Jr. dismissed the case. Reasonable people want to know what motivated Williams outrageous conduct in this case. The 4th Circuit awarded Mrs. Tibbetts her pro se request for costs of appeal ($880) on June 30, 2000. As of 9-8-2000 Bestfoods/Webner still have not sent Mrs. Tibbitts a check. Of coarse this is a pittance in comparison to the real costs, many tens of thousands of dollars it cost Mrs. Tibbetts and her family to defend their First Amendment rights against this SLAPP suit. And last but not least is the fact that the family legacy, the use of the Skippy trademark on food. A taking of this family's most valuable asset. Hopefully Unilever will see fit to correct this terrible injustice, and broom not so reputable management who has perpetuated such on three generations of the Tibbitt family. USA: Skippy to remain with Bestfoods, but Tibbetts gains moral victory 10 Oct 2000 |
| CPC/Bestfoods
Get Their Paddies Slapped, and Their Judge Ends
Up with Egg On His Face: U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Overturns Outragous Ruling, saying "Because the injunction fails to comply with the requirements of Rule 65(d) and because it raises serious First Amendment concerns, we vacate the injunction and remand for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion." I hope they both learned something from this setback. |
| ACLU Files Amicus Brief On Behalf Of Skippy |
| I thank the Reporters Committee For Freedom Of The Press for their advice and encouragement. |
Ford Motor Company .vs. BlueOvalNews 
Coming Soon:
Peanut Allergies,
what they don't want you to know.
Skippy Peanut Butter Patent,
Get a load of what they
put in the stuff.
CPC/Bestfoods
In The Legal News, Pending and recent
litigation.
SLAPP
Suits, Disreputable
ploys to control the public.
| It's the First Amendment Stupid | Why I created this site |
CORP-FOCUS on The Surprising Political Economy of Skippy
| Is Skippy in a Jam? |  THE BOYCOTT |
Read about the history of
Skippy® and the Life and Times of Percy
Crosby, Skippy's® creator. This site gives the history
of how CPC
and Bestfoods unjustly received a
court order in 1986 giving them
rights to the Skippy® trademark for food products.
And furthermore, how CPC / Bestfoods have now received
a court
order censoring the www.Skippy.com web site.
And then CPC/
Bestfoods did their best
to short circuit both the first amendment
and the press's right to tell the story with the
following unusual
proposed orders:
Submission of Substitute
Order of Contempt 8-20-99 &
CPC-Bestfoods [Revised] Order
of Contempt Not Dated but
submitted 8-20-99 - DEFENDANTS ANSWER.
But when CPC and the Judge recognized that their
approach of
trying to censor unnamed third parties was not going to
work they
came up with a novel approach embodied
in The Hearing on
8-27-99 & ORDER
9-7-9. But once again they
made major
tactical blunders, in that they made the very documents
they hoped
to censor by ordering Mrs. Tibbetts and Skippy, Inc. to
assert
copyright to force
removal of those documents, forever
public.
Skippy Inc. entered their appeal on 9-24-99. It is important that the public send CPC/Bestfoods a clear message by BOYCOTTING all their products.
In this case it is clear that the courts have not
served the
interests of justice. But justice could be served with a movie which
tells the story of how the little people stand tall in
the face of
vicious attacks by a less than reputable big business.
Remember THE BOYCOTT
This web site was CENSORED
but still managed to tell the
WHOLE
story. Hooray For The First Amendment