Brionna Friedrich reports: Former chief building official Ray Waller has won his lawsuit against Calaveras County for its violation of his privacy rights. After Waller was dismissed in 2007, the county released 1,200 documents from his personnel file in response to public records requests for the information by the Stockton Record and the Calaveras Enterprise….
Category: Court
Court: Husband’s Access of Wife’s Email to Obtain Information for Divorce Proceeding is not Outrageous
Venkat Balasubramani discusses a case in Arkansas: Miller v. Meyers, 09-cv-6103 (W.D. Ark.; Jan 21, 2011) This case presents another fact pattern involving an increasingly common twist to the modern divorce proceeding – someone surreptitiously accesses his or her spouse’s email and on-line accounts to gather information to be used in a family law proceeding….
P2P lawyer accused of issuing ISP subpoenas without court approval
Nate Anderson writes: A few weeks ago, a man headed home from work and found that his wife had already opened a letter from their ISP, Comcast. The letter said that the man’s IP address had been fingered by Mick Haig Productions, a German film producer suing 670 people in a Dallas federal court. […]…
Federal court applies Seescandy.com test to unmask anonymous defendants in copyright and privacy case
Evan Brown writes: Liberty Media Holdings, LLC. v. Does 1-59, 2011 WL 292128 (S.D. Cal., January 25, 2011) Plaintiff porn company sued 59 anonymous defendants it knew only by IP address for violation of the Stored Communications Act (SCA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and for copyright infringement. Since plaintiff did not know…