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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1125 Trademark Infringement (Lanham Act)

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

MOHAVE COUNTY LANDOWNER 

NEWS, INC., an Arizona corporation, dba 

CALIFORNIA CITY LANDOWNERS 

ASSOCIATION and dba MOHAVE 

COUNTY LANDOWNERS 

ASSOCIATION, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

MOHAVE COUNTY ABSENTEE 

LANDOWNERS NEWS, LLC, an Arizona 

limited liability company, CALIFORNIA 

CITY ABSENTEE LANDOWNERS 

NEWS, LLC, a California limited liability 

company; MOHAVE COUNTY 

ABSENTEE LANDOWNER NEWS LLC, 

a Florida limited liability company; RENO 

INVESTMENTS, INC., a Florida 

Corporation; LANDOWNERS 

ASSOCIATION, LLC, a Florida limited 

liability company; PATRICK A. 

DONNELLY’S VACANT PROPERTY 

OWNERS NEWS, LLC; a Florida limited 

liability company; PATRICK A. 

DONNELLY, an individual; JAMES D. 

OWNBY, an individual; DOES 1 through 

50, 

Defendants. 

No. 1:15-cv-00877 KJM JLT 

ORDER 

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Upon the parties’ Stipulated Motion for Entry of Permanent Injunction and 

Dismissal with Prejudice of all claims alleged in the Complaint, the court having considered the 

Stipulation, and for good cause, the court orders as follows: 

A. The parties’ Stipulated Motion is hereby granted; 

B. Effective as of August 13, 2015, except as otherwise necessary or required to 

comply with the terms of the parties’ Settlement Agreement, defendants, and each of them, and 

their owners, members, officers, employees, agents, or representatives of any kind, are 

permanently enjoined as follows: 

i. Barred from all use, publication or dissemination of the name “Mohave 

County Absentee Landowners News”, “California City Absentee Landowners News”, or any 

names which are confusingly similar to Mohave County Landowner News, Inc., Mohave County 

Landowners Association, or California City Landowners Association, or any of them; 

ii. Barred from all use, publication or dissemination of the name “Mohave 

County Absentee Landowners News”, “California City Absentee Landowners News”, or any 

names which are confusingly similar to Mohave County Landowner News, Inc., Mohave County 

Landowners Association and California City Landowners Association, in any of Defendants’ 

business activities, including but not limited to, Defendants’ newsletters, letterhead, advertising, 

solicitations to the public, mailings, website, publications, postal/mailing activities, banking 

activities, vendor accounts, representations to the public, social media profiles or posts; 

iii. Barred from use, registration, or renewal of domain names held in the 

name of “Mohave County Absentee Landowners News,” “California City Absentee Landowners 

News,” or any names which are confusingly similar to: 

www.mohavecountylandowners.com, 

www.mohavecountyabsenteelandownersnewsllc.com, 

www.calcitylandowners.com, 

www.californiacityabsenteelandownersnewsllc.com, 

mohaveabsentees@yahoo.com, and 

ccaln@calcitylandowners.com. 

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Defendants shall not use any existing websites or the email addresses, 

www.mohavecountylandowners.com, 

www.mohavecountyabsenteelandownersnewsllc.com, 

www.calcitylandowners.com, 

www.californiacityabsenteelandownersnewsllc.com, 

mohaveabsentees@yahoo.com, and 

ccaln@calcitylandowners.com 

to re-direct the public to any other websites or email addresses belonging to Defendants. 

iv. Barred from the solicitation, acceptance, processing, and/or depositing of 

any monies which are tendered in the name of or intended to be paid by the payor to Plaintiff; 

v. Barred from the solicitation, acceptance, processing, and/or depositing of 

any monies which are tendered in the name of “Mohave County Absentee Landowners News”, 

“California City Absentee Landowners News”, or any names which are confusingly similar to 

Mohave County Landowner News, Inc., Mohave County Landowners Association, or California 

City Landowners Association; 

vi. The Defendants shall make all necessary changes to their business 

activities and operations, including but not limited to, banking, postal services, newsletter 

publication and dissemination, mail distribution and processing, and websites and other electronic 

media, changing and/or refraining from all use of the name “Mohave County Absentee 

Landowners News”, “California City Absentee Landowners News”, or any names which are 

confusingly similar to Mohave County Landowner News, Inc., Mohave County Landowners 

Association, or California City Landowners Association, with the States of Arizona, California, 

Florida and any other States in which Defendants do business, Better Business Bureau, post office 

boxes, bank accounts, and vendors and vendor accounts; 

C. Defendants Patrick A. Donnelly, California City Absentee Landowners News, 

LLC, Mohave County Absentee Landowners News, L.L.C. (Arizona), Mohave County Absentee 

Landowner News, LLC (Florida) and Patrick A. Donnelly’s Vacant Property Owners News, LLC 

(Arizona and Florida) shall permanently remove all websites, email addresses, domain names 

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held in the name of “Mohave County Absentee Landowners News”, “California City Absentee 

Landowners News”, or any names which are confusingly similar to: 

www.mohavecountylandowners.com, 

www.mohavecountyabsenteelandownersnewsllc.com, 

www.calcitylandowners.com, 

www.californiacityabsenteelandownersnewsllc.com, 

mohaveabsentees@yahoo.com, and 

ccaln@calcitylandowners.com, 

and further shall work diligently to remove all internet marketing materials held in the name of 

“Mohave County Absentee Landowners News”, “California City Absentee Landowners News”, 

or any names which are confusingly similar to the names identified above in this paragraph. All 

Parties, including Plaintiff and all Defendants, shall comply with reasonable steps required by site 

operators, ISOs and ISPs for the removal of the domain names and websites bearing the abovedefined class of names. 

With the exception of the relief granted by this Permanent Injunction, all other 

claims alleged in the Complaint shall be dismissed with prejudice, each party to bear its/his own 

attorney’s fees and costs. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

DATED: September 4, 2015. 

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