{"id":12325,"date":"2009-12-11T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T17:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12325"},"modified":"2009-12-11T09:43:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T17:43:59","slug":"surf-city-usa-spawns-another-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12325","title":{"rendered":"Surf City USA Spawns Another Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/surfcityUSA.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/surfcityUSA.jpg','popup','width=300,height=225,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/surfcityUSA-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Surfcityusa\" \/><\/a><strong>Richard McKee<\/strong>, a political activist from Huntington Beach, California is suing the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfcityusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Huntington Beach Marketing and Visitors Bureau<\/a><\/strong> and the <strong>Huntington Beach Hotel\/Motel Business Improvement District<\/strong> because he says the money they spent in their legal battle with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorelinesurf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noland&#8217;s on the Wharf and Shoreline Surf Shop<\/a><\/strong> in Santa Cruz over rights to the term &#8220;Surf City USA&#8221; may have been a wasted of taxpayer&#8217;s money, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/news\/city-223656-surf-bureau.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Register<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He alleges in the October suit that the groups are public agencies and must respond to his public records requests about a confidential January 2008 settlement concerning the Surf City USA logo. McKee said the settlement documents could prove that a lawsuit between the bureau and a Santa Cruz shop owner was not necessary because the moniker used before and after the suit is almost identical.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McKee says the public has the right to know. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/news\/city-223656-surf-bureau.html\" target=\"_blank\">The OC Register<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard McKee, a political activist from Huntington Beach, California is suing the The Huntington Beach Marketing and Visitors Bureau and the Huntington Beach Hotel\/Motel Business Improvement District because he says the money they spent in their legal battle with Noland&#8217;s on the Wharf and Shoreline Surf Shop in Santa Cruz over rights to the term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12326,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12325\/revisions\/12326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}