[ga] challenge to legality of UDRP goes to court

["L Gallegos" <jandl@jandl.com>]

From Michael Geist's newsletter.  
One can only hope.

BANCOCHILE.COM UDRP DECISION LEADS TO LAWSUIT Eric 
Bord, a Washington, D.C.-area immigration lawyer who lost a 
UDRP decision at WIPO has asked a federal court to let him keep 
the address and to quash the UDRP process.  Two of the three 
panel members had ruled that Bord had no rights over the 
BancoChile.com domain name and ordered him to hand over the 
name to a Chilean bank.  Bord is claiming under his lawsuit, 
however, that ICANN"s UDRP fails to provide due process.  
Interestingly, the Chilean bank was represented at the UDRP by 
Marino Porzio, who also sometimes serves as a WIPO arbitrator. 
He is best known for his own UDRP decision a year ago in which 
he said the municipal government in Barcelona, Spain, deserved to 
hold the Barcelona.com address being used by a operator of a 
Web portal for that city.  
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169824.html

Leah

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