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udge Rejects 'Obscene' Name Change
By DEBORAH BAKER,
AP
Posted: 2008-06-28 16:04:59
Filed Under: Law News, Nation News, Weird News
SANTA FE, N.M. (June 28) - A New Mexico appeals court on Friday ruled against a Los Alamos man who wanted to change his name to a phrase containing a popular four-letter obscenity.
The man appealed after a state district judge in Bernalillo County refused his request to change his name to "F--- Censorship!"
Judge Nan Nash ruled that the proposed name change was "obscene, offensive and would not comport with common decency."
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The man - whose current legal name is Variable - argued on appeal that it was improper government censorship to deny him the name change.
"We do not believe that the district court's action infringes on petitioner's right to free speech," a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals said in its ruling.
The man has the right to call himself whatever he wants, unless there's fraud or misrepresentation involved, the judges said.
But once he seeks court approval for a name change, the court has the authority to turn him down on several grounds, including if the name is offensive to common decency and good taste, the judges ruled.
That law was clarified in a 2004 case in the same court that apparently involved the same petitioner. In that case, an Albuquerque man whose name was Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon got the go-ahead from the appeals court to change his name to Variable.
udge Rejects 'Obscene' Name Change
By DEBORAH BAKER,
AP
Posted: 2008-06-28 16:04:59
Filed Under: Law News, Nation News, Weird News
SANTA FE, N.M. (June 28) - A New Mexico appeals court on Friday ruled against a Los Alamos man who wanted to change his name to a phrase containing a popular four-letter obscenity.
The man appealed after a state district judge in Bernalillo County refused his request to change his name to "F--- Censorship!"
Judge Nan Nash ruled that the proposed name change was "obscene, offensive and would not comport with common decency."
More Rejected Names
4RealAP
Last year, New Zealand authorities blocked a couple's bid to officially name their new son "4Real," saying numerals are not allowed. Click through the photos to see disputes over other unusual names.
1 of 7PHOTOS
X | Close
The man - whose current legal name is Variable - argued on appeal that it was improper government censorship to deny him the name change.
"We do not believe that the district court's action infringes on petitioner's right to free speech," a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals said in its ruling.
The man has the right to call himself whatever he wants, unless there's fraud or misrepresentation involved, the judges said.
But once he seeks court approval for a name change, the court has the authority to turn him down on several grounds, including if the name is offensive to common decency and good taste, the judges ruled.
That law was clarified in a 2004 case in the same court that apparently involved the same petitioner. In that case, an Albuquerque man whose name was Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon got the go-ahead from the appeals court to change his name to Variable.
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Although this is an obvious joke I do see people on here that use characters instead of letters when posting a "bad" word. I never quite understood that. We know what the word is even with the characters replacing the letters so why not just post the word? Even on TV shows. They do the same shit. They mute out the word, but yet we can still read their lips. We know what the word is that they're saying, it's not a secret, just leave the stupid word in.
How about the moronic Wal-Mart versions of CDs with words bleeped or muted out. The parents have to be complete morons if they think their 13 year old kid can't figure out the missing word. And if their kid CAN'T figure out the missing word... then they really need to worry more about their 13 year old kid, than the CD he is listening to.
Hail, Hail!!!
Exactly.
Here's a question.
Which is a worse act? Fucking or raping? I think that we'd all pretty much have to agree that rape would be a worse act than fucking. Fucking can be pretty nice. Rape on the other hand is an act of violence.
With that being said, why do they beep the word fuck from TV shows and news broadcast, yet they let the word rape fly free with no censorship? Doesn't make sense to me. I don't know about all of you but to me rape is a much worse word than fuck.