{"id":4935,"date":"2009-03-25T19:09:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2009-03-26T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:23:37","slug":"callaway-suing-to-find-web-commenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4935","title":{"rendered":"Callaway Suing To Find Web Commenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/callaway-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/callaway-logo.jpg','popup','width=188,height=106,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.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/callaway-logo-tm1.jpg\" height=\"56\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Callaway-Logo\" \/><\/a>Someone in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/strong> message boards has been sharing opinions about Carlsbad&#8217;s own golf giant <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.callawaygolf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Callaway Golf<\/a><\/strong> that <strong>Callaway<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t seem to like. So, the company filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court to subpoena Yahoo Finance and require them to hand over information regarding the identity of the poster, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/mar\/20\/1b20callaway212236-callaway-suit-seeks-identity-we\/?zIndex=69863\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The lawsuit claims that, as a vendor or employee, the poster would have agreed not to disclose confidential information. It contends that around March of this year, the poster revealed information about the company&#8217;s operations. . . .Most posts on the Yahoo chat board for Callaway in the past two months don&#8217;t appear to reveal inside information. Several discuss the recent performance and attire of Phil Mickelson, a Callaway-sponsored player. . . One post is titled \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/messages.finance.yahoo.com\/Business_%26_Finance\/Investments\/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29\/Stocks_C\/threadview?bn=6019&amp;tid=13112&amp;mid=13112\" target=\"_blank\">Could golf get any more boring<\/a><\/strong>?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears that the person they are hunting down is posting under the name &#8220;billclauson&#8221;. (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.messages.yahoo.com\/search?.mbintl=finance&amp;q=billclauson&amp;action=Search&amp;r=Huiz75WdCYfD_KCA2Dc-&amp;within=author&amp;within=tm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for a collection of his posts<\/a><\/strong>). And we have to agree, the posts seem pretty benign. Even this one from February 12, 2009:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have been in and out of Callaway for many years. I just think the economy and the state of golf make any &#8220;golf&#8221; company a sell at this time. Callaway stock and golf related investments are going nowhere for the forseeable future. We may have seen the hayday for golf sometime back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing that most people wouldn&#8217;t agree with there. Thankfully, <strong>Judge William Nevitt Jr<\/strong>. denied Callaway&#8217;s subpoena request, but it&#8217;s still nice to know that Callaway&#8217;s corporate lawyers have time to troll the Internet looking for fights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/mar\/20\/1b20callaway212236-callaway-suit-seeks-identity-we\/?zIndex=69863\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone in the Yahoo Finance message boards has been sharing opinions about Carlsbad&#8217;s own golf giant Callaway Golf that Callaway doesn&#8217;t seem to like. So, the company filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court to subpoena Yahoo Finance and require them to hand over information regarding the identity of the poster, according to a [&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":[8,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4946,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}