After two years of litigation in federalcourt, former LSU Law School student and operator of lsulaw.com,Douglas Dorhauer, does not want to run his controversial Web siteanymore.
    Dorhauer settled the long-runninglawsuit with University over trademark infringement in April,agreeing to turn over the domain name and not discuss or publishany documents associated with the case.
    In return, Dorhauer does not have to payany court fees or damages from the litigation.
    ”It took a lot of time to run that Website,” Vince Booth, Dorhauer’s attorney, said. “He doesn’t careabout this anymore.”
    When Dorhauer began law school in 2000,he purchased the domain name for e-mail and to keep track ofimportant dates. Soon after, Dorhauer used it to discuss the highcost of tuition and the large number of people who “flunk out” ofthe Law School.
    In 2001, the University asked Dorhauerto stop using the LSU trademark because some students could notdifferentiate between his site and the Center’s official site –http://law.lsu.edu.
    When Dorhauer refused, the Universityfiled suit in U.S. District Court asking the court to bar Dorhauerfrom using the LSU name, logos and symbols.
    Dorhauer declined to comment Friday,citing a confidentiality agreement he signed at the time of thesettlement.
    Booth said Dorhauer did not settle outof court because he thought he did not do anything wrong or wouldlose the case.
    Instead, Booth said he asked his clientif he cared about running the site anymore, and Dorhauer saidno.
    Dorhauer graduated from the Law Centerlast year and now works as a personal injury lawyer at E. EricGuirard in Baton Rouge.
    Although, early coverage of the case inThe Washington Post and The New York Times stirred talk of itspotential to impact trademark laws, the settlement abandoned anypossibility of change.
    However, the Law School may have takenheed to Dorhauer’s complaint about the University “flunking” toomany students.
    According to the LSU Law Catalog, theattrition rates — withdrawals and academic exclusion — infirst-year classes has declined from 12 percent in 2001-2002, tosix percent in 2003-2004.
    Daphne Armstead-James, an admissionscounselor in the Law School, said the decrease in exclusion ratesis because the Law School is becoming more selective in theiradmissions process.