Andy Furillo reports that a juror’s Facebook postings during a trial have become the subject of a court order. The defense attorneys want to see if anything the juror posted indicates bias or impropriety – including being influenced by others. The Facebook fight under way in a Sacramento courtroom pivoted into new territory Friday when…
Category: Court
History Sniffing Code Collides With Privacy Concerns
E. Todd Presnell and Sepideh C. Khansari write: …History sniffing is now the centerpiece of a growing number of consumer class action lawsuits against name-brand companies seeking unspecified damages arising from invasion of privacy, common law tort claims, and statutory violations. And these history-sniffing actions and resulting lawsuits have attracted attention from other class action…
Girls Get Anonymity After Having ‘Gone Wild’
Matt Reynolds reports: Women who appeared in “Girls Gone Wild” videos while they were underage teenagers are entitled to anonymity at trial against the soft-core porn franchise they say coerced their conduct, according to a split-panel ruling from the 11th Circuit. “Anyone entering the plaintiffs’ names into an online search engine will find several links…
CA: Waller wins privacy suit
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….