Leigh Page reports that the American Medical Association has issued a statement in response to a lawsuit filed by Dow Jones seeking to overturn a long-standing ruling that denied the press access to physicians’ Medicare payment records: In a statement, AMA President Cecil B. Wilson, MD, argued that physicians have a right to keep complex…
Category: Court
Why Corporate Counsel Should Lose Sleep Over the Federal Wiretap Act
Philip L. Gordon writes: Once seen only in the shadows of the war against organized crime, the Federal Wiretap Act should now be moving steadily and rapidly toward the top of the corporate compliance checklist. Robust civil remedies, recent court decisions and technological developments have transformed the act’s risk profile from a nonevent to a…
Internet privacy not so private in court
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…
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…