Judge shutters two websites claiming affiliation with Walters

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A judge has issued a temporary restraining order shutting down two websites with domain names linked to Las Vegas sports gambler Bill Walters.

Walters filed suit this week against companies and individuals he said had put up websites deceptively claiming an association with him and falsely claiming people could use the sites to buy sports bet picks from him.

After receiving the lawsuit, U.S. District Judge James Mahan on Thursday signed an order shutting down two sites and transferring their allegedly infringing domain names to Walters.

They are billywalterssportspicks.com and billywalterssportsbettingpicks.com.

Mahan also ordered several other sites named in Walters’ lawsuit to remove all references to Walters and to post the following statement:

“This site is not, and has never been associated with, the world renowned William (Bill) Walters of Las Vegas. This is not a site or service which he approves or has ever been associated with.”

The sites affected by that order are cooperspicks.com, sportshandicappersmonitor.com, jmpicks.com, jmpicks.net, sportssyndicate.com and howtoearnmoneybynet.com.

The restraining order will be in effect through at least Sept. 11, when Mahan plans a hearing on whether to extend it with a preliminary injunction requested by Walters.

Defendant Michael Cooper, of the firm Cooper Picks and the site cooperspicks.com, on Friday said through a spokesman he’s in touch with Walters’ attorney “to solve this amicably.”

“Mr. Cooper has great respect for Mr. Walters and what he’s done in this industry,” the spokesman said.

Walters, in the meantime, posted a video on YouTube reiterating statements in his lawsuit that he does not sell sports picks and has no plans to do so.

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