Parler Furor Spurs ‘Nazi’ Insults to Wrong Lawyer in Name Mixup

Over the past 24 hours, David J. Groesbeck has been called a Nazi, and lots more.

He’s been contacted by vendors who provide digital forensic services. Lawyers have reached out offering to write briefs in a lawsuit that Parler, the conservative social media platform, filed Monday against Amazon Web Services Inc. for shutting off its service after last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, listing David J. Groesbeck as its lawyer.

Only, this David J. Groesbeck isn’t the one everyone was looking for.

This David J. Groesbeck is a patent attorney who happens to share the same first name, last ...