Eliyahu Federman
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Eliyahu "Eli" Federman is an American lawyer and the Vice President of the large deal website 1SaleADay
. In 2010 he worked on behalf of 1SaleADay to win a protracted international trademark
dispute with an Australian company. Federman served in 2009-2010 as executive articles editor of the New York City Law Review
.
He is also an activist and writer that has been published in the Social Science Research Network
, New York Times, The Jewish Daily Forward and elsewhere on subjects ranging from sexual abuse awareness, civil rights, gender equality, and death penalty issues.
. In 2003, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a District Court ruling that the police used excessive force.
Federman is also the nephew of the famous American comedian, actor, author, and comedy writer Wayne Federman
. He is brothers with 1SaleADay founder Ben Federman
.
, Federman organized a protest urging the Office of Special Investigation (OSI) division of the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation of the immigration status of Ted Junker
– a former SS officer who built a shrine to commemorate Adolf Hitler’s
legacy.
grant. He used the grant to intern for Ronald L. Kuby, with whom he worked on a Second Circuit Court of Appeals case. Federman graduated law school in 2010.
Federman served in 2009-2010 as executive articles editor of the New York City Law Review, which is published by the City University of New York School of Law
. He has published several articles --among them, article contributions to several death-penalty-related law review articles published by his law school professor Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier.
, the largest independently owned daily deal website. In 2010, via the Internet’s Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
(UDRP), he worked on behalf of 1SaleADay to win a protracted international trademark
dispute with an Australian company. The World Trademark Review
featured this case to highlight the dangers associated with informal licensing of intellectual property.
In 2011 Internet Retailer and the Examiner
featured Federman's social media strategy of treating the 1SaleADay fan base as personal friends, being transparent with consumers, reflecting on current events instead of just promoting products, and promoting fund-raising, most notably in the case of the Japanese tsunami
and other natural disasters.
issued by the Beth Din
in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights
section, which prohibited members of the Lubavitcher community from speaking with the police or media. Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes also condemned the gag order. Federman’s letter engendered both support and criticism within the Crown Heights Community.
that an educational seminar teaching the African-American and Jewish communities about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, ticketed or searched by the police - would enhance police-community relations in Crown Heights
. In response to a question from organizer Federman at a Community Counsel meeting, Deputy Inspector Peter Simonetti of the local 71st Crown Heights Precinct endorsed the Know-Your-Rights seminar. The presenters at the seminar included Federman, Attorneys Norman Siegel
and Earl Ward, District Attorney counsel Lance P. Ogiste along with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries
and Senator Eric Adams
. The Jewish Press
reported that the seminar was held to address efforts of some to quell members of the community from complaining about the police, as well as to give citizens a greater appreciation of their constitutional rights.
Community - where he argued that the policy may be unconstitutional and has no basis in Jewish law. In 2010 the Jewish Daily Forward also published an article that was critical of the male-only voting policy. The Forward also published an Op-Ed of Federman's reflections on combating the culture of silence in the context of women's voting rights.
1saleaday
1SaleADay is an Internet retailer with a deal-a-day format. The site was founded in 2007 by Ben Federman. 1SaleADay's main site offers one discounted item a day, the product can vary from a computer-related product to a magazine subscription. Products are listed at up to 80-90% off retail....
. In 2010 he worked on behalf of 1SaleADay to win a protracted international trademark
Trademark
A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...
dispute with an Australian company. Federman served in 2009-2010 as executive articles editor of the New York City Law Review
City University of New York School of Law
CUNY School of Law is a law school in New York City, founded in 1983.In 1981, CUNY hired Charles Halpern to be its founding Dean. This law school was established as a public interest law school. The curriculum integrates clinical teaching methods with traditional areas of legal study.In Spring of...
.
He is also an activist and writer that has been published in the Social Science Research Network
Social Science Research Network
The Social Science Research Network is a website devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities. SSRN is viewed as particularly strong in the fields of economics, finance, accounting, management, and law. SSRN was founded in 1994 by Michael Jensen ...
, New York Times, The Jewish Daily Forward and elsewhere on subjects ranging from sexual abuse awareness, civil rights, gender equality, and death penalty issues.
Early life
From ages 14 to 17 Federman helped reveal a cover-up of his father’s tragic murder by members of a SWAT team in Kern County CaliforniaKern County, California
Spreading across the southern end of the California Central Valley, Kern County is the fifth-largest county by population in California. Its economy is heavily linked to agriculture and to petroleum extraction, and there is a strong aviation and space presence. Politically, it has generally...
. In 2003, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a District Court ruling that the police used excessive force.
Federman is also the nephew of the famous American comedian, actor, author, and comedy writer Wayne Federman
Wayne Federman
Wayne Federman is an American comedian, actor, author, and comedy writer. He is noted for his numerous stand-up comedy appearances in clubs, theaters, and on television; his biography of "Pistol" Pete Maravich; and his supporting comedic acting roles in The X-Files, The Larry Sanders Show, Curb...
. He is brothers with 1SaleADay founder Ben Federman
Ben Federman
Ben Federman , an American entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of 1SaleADay, a large deal website. He has subsequently founded other online deal sites, including Ben's Outlet, Dynamite Time, and Shadora. He donates half of his companies' earnings to charity.-Early life:Federman was born in 1983 in...
.
Nazi protest
In 2006, while attending Marquette UniversityMarquette University
Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...
, Federman organized a protest urging the Office of Special Investigation (OSI) division of the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation of the immigration status of Ted Junker
Ted Junker
Ted Junker is a Romanian-born German who generated publicity and controversy when he announced plans to open a memorial to Adolf Hitler in Walworth County, Wisconsin, near Millard, Wisconsin.Junker had planned to hold a grand opening for the memorial on June 25, 2006...
– a former SS officer who built a shrine to commemorate Adolf Hitler’s
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
legacy.
Law school
In 2008, during his first year of law school, Federman received a Charles H. RevsonCharles H. Revson Foundation
The Charles H. Revson Foundation was founded in 1956 by Charles H. Revson, the founding President of Revlon Cosmetics as a vehicle for his charitable giving. Mr. Revson willed half his estate to the Foundation upon his death. -Background:...
grant. He used the grant to intern for Ronald L. Kuby, with whom he worked on a Second Circuit Court of Appeals case. Federman graduated law school in 2010.
Federman served in 2009-2010 as executive articles editor of the New York City Law Review, which is published by the City University of New York School of Law
City University of New York School of Law
CUNY School of Law is a law school in New York City, founded in 1983.In 1981, CUNY hired Charles Halpern to be its founding Dean. This law school was established as a public interest law school. The curriculum integrates clinical teaching methods with traditional areas of legal study.In Spring of...
. He has published several articles --among them, article contributions to several death-penalty-related law review articles published by his law school professor Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier.
1SaleADay
He currently serves as the vice president of 1SaleADay1saleaday
1SaleADay is an Internet retailer with a deal-a-day format. The site was founded in 2007 by Ben Federman. 1SaleADay's main site offers one discounted item a day, the product can vary from a computer-related product to a magazine subscription. Products are listed at up to 80-90% off retail....
, the largest independently owned daily deal website. In 2010, via the Internet’s Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy
The Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy is a process established by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers for the resolution of disputes regarding the registration of internet domain names...
(UDRP), he worked on behalf of 1SaleADay to win a protracted international trademark
Trademark
A trademark, trade mark, or trade-mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or...
dispute with an Australian company. The World Trademark Review
World Trademark Review
World Trademark Review is a website and magazine covering the commercial and international practice of trademark law. Subscribers receive a print magazine once every other month and a daily email newsletter featuring news stories, feature articles and legal updates from a panel of trademark...
featured this case to highlight the dangers associated with informal licensing of intellectual property.
In 2011 Internet Retailer and the Examiner
Examiner
The Examiner was a weekly paper founded by Leigh and John Hunt in 1808. For the first fifty years it was a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles, but from 1865 it repeatedly changed hands and political allegiance, resulting in a rapid decline in readership and loss of...
featured Federman's social media strategy of treating the 1SaleADay fan base as personal friends, being transparent with consumers, reflecting on current events instead of just promoting products, and promoting fund-raising, most notably in the case of the Japanese tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...
and other natural disasters.
Gag order controversy
In 2010 the New York Times published a letter that Federman wrote challenging a gag orderGag order
A gag order is an order, sometimes a legal order by a court or government, other times a private order by an employer or other institution, restricting information or comment from being made public.Gag orders are often used against participants involved in a lawsuit or criminal trial...
issued by the Beth Din
Beth din
A beth din, bet din, beit din or beis din is a rabbinical court of Judaism. In ancient times, it was the building block of the legal system in the Biblical Land of Israel...
in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights
Crown Heights
Crown Heights can refer to:* Crown Heights, Brooklyn* Crown Heights, New York, a hamlet on the west side of the Town of Poughkeepsie* Crown Heights , a 2004 television film...
section, which prohibited members of the Lubavitcher community from speaking with the police or media. Brooklyn D.A. Charles Hynes also condemned the gag order. Federman’s letter engendered both support and criticism within the Crown Heights Community.
Sexual abuse awareness
Federman advocated an open discussion on sexual abuse in the Jewish community, maintaining that that obligation to protect the innocent from being hurt supersedes the claim that discussing sexual abuse will give the community a “bad name.” Federman highlighted that children who are raised without knowledge of their bodies or intimacy issue are "more vulnerable to abuse" and less likely to speak about it.Know-Your-Rights
Federman argued in an Op-EdOp-ed
An op-ed, abbreviated from opposite the editorial page , is a newspaper article that expresses the opinions of a named writer who is usually unaffiliated with the newspaper's editorial board...
that an educational seminar teaching the African-American and Jewish communities about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, ticketed or searched by the police - would enhance police-community relations in Crown Heights
Crown Heights
Crown Heights can refer to:* Crown Heights, Brooklyn* Crown Heights, New York, a hamlet on the west side of the Town of Poughkeepsie* Crown Heights , a 2004 television film...
. In response to a question from organizer Federman at a Community Counsel meeting, Deputy Inspector Peter Simonetti of the local 71st Crown Heights Precinct endorsed the Know-Your-Rights seminar. The presenters at the seminar included Federman, Attorneys Norman Siegel
Norman Siegel
Norman Siegel was the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union , New York's leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union...
and Earl Ward, District Attorney counsel Lance P. Ogiste along with Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Jeffries
-Early career:Jeffries holds a degree from New York University School of Law as well as a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University and a Bachelor's in Political Science from Binghamton University where he graduated with honors for outstanding academic achievement...
and Senator Eric Adams
Eric Adams (politician)
Eric L. Adams is a Democratic State Senator in the New York Senate. He represents the 20th Senate District, which includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush, Crown Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace and Prospect Heights....
. The Jewish Press
The Jewish Press
The Jewish Press is an American weekly newspaper, geared toward the Modern Orthodox Jewish community. It describes itself as "America's Largest Independent Jewish Weekly." The newspaper has a politically conservative viewpoint and editorial policy....
reported that the seminar was held to address efforts of some to quell members of the community from complaining about the police, as well as to give citizens a greater appreciation of their constitutional rights.
Voting rights
In 2011, the New York Times chronicled Federman's challenge of the male-only voting policy of a social service agency in the Jewish Brooklyn Crown HeightsCrown Heights
Crown Heights can refer to:* Crown Heights, Brooklyn* Crown Heights, New York, a hamlet on the west side of the Town of Poughkeepsie* Crown Heights , a 2004 television film...
Community - where he argued that the policy may be unconstitutional and has no basis in Jewish law. In 2010 the Jewish Daily Forward also published an article that was critical of the male-only voting policy. The Forward also published an Op-Ed of Federman's reflections on combating the culture of silence in the context of women's voting rights.