Rhonda Cook reports: Small-town gossip is electronic now, reaching far and wide with a speed that is difficult to stop. “We have got to stop this,” said Blairsville attorney Russell Stookey, who won a $404,000 award for Gene Cooley of Blairsville after a website poster falsely called Cooley a child molester and drug addict. “We’re…
Category: Court
Israeli lawsuit alleges invasion of privacy by playwright
Michael Handelzalts reports: A legal issue to be arbitrated in the Tel Aviv District Court this May raises a philosophical-artistic question that exceeds both the narrow boundaries of law books and the broader limits of the stage. Y., the victim of a gang rape on Kibbutz Shomrat in 1988 when she was 14, is suing…
WSJ sues over Medicare records
Claude Solnik reports: The publisher of The Wall Street Journal is going to court to overturn a 31-year-old court ruling that blocks public access to Medicare records containing evidence of fraud. Dow Jones & Co. filed papers in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on Tuesday, seeking to overturn an injunction…
UK: Dentist hacked into fiancee’s laptop to show she was a fantasist
Nick Britten reports: A dentist loaded spyware onto his fiancee’s laptop to gather evidence against her as their relationship collapsed, a court has heard. Mark Singh was accused of “somewhat lacking in gentlemanliness” by infiltrating his former fiancee Moira Walsh’s computer. Mr Singh’s “disgraceful behaviour” landed him with legal costs or around £130,000, even though…