Thompson Coburn partners Emily Murphy and Michael Parks and associate Brendan Bement sent a cease-and-desist letter to prevent website fraudsters from impersonating Marymount California University. The story was covered in a recent USA TODAY article, which details multiple shuttered colleges whose names have been resurrected on the web.
Brian W.G. Marcotte, the real Marymount California’s final president, was troubled to learn of the new website from USA TODAY. “We take it pretty personally that somebody is misrepresenting what we worked so hard for 54 years to create,” Brian said. “And to have somebody twisting the reality of where we are right now is very troublesome to us.”
Due to the Thompson Coburn team’s swift action, Marymount California University avoided a lengthy legal battle.
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