An Amarillo woman is suing the federal government for intentional infliction of emotional distress after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents allegedly humiliated the woman when her breasts were publicly exposed during an “extended search” two years ago at a Corpus Christi airport. The suit, filed earlier this year in Amarillo’s U.S. District Court, alleges the…
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Pirates’ lawyers end trial with ‘Facebook defense’
Defence lawyers for the three founders and a financier of Swedish file sharing site The Pirate Bay warned on Friday of the consequences for popular websites like Facebook and Twitter if their clients’ guilty verdict isn’t overturned. […] Neij’s lawyer Jonas Nilsson insisted Friday that if the appeals court confirmed the guilty verdict for his…
Case Law: King v Sunday World, Northern Ireland privacy and harassment claim
We have now been provided with a copy of the judgment of Mr Justice Weatherup in the case of King v Sunday World. We discussed the news reports of this case last month. The claim was under Article 2 of the Convention, for misuse of private information and harassment by a newspaper. The claimant, Drew King had…
Debt collector broke the law by using MySpace photo to intimidate consumer
Evan Brown recaps a recent court decision in Minnesota: Plaintiff fell behind on her car payments. The lender turned the debt over to a collection agency that used technology and some remarkably poor judgment in an attempt to get paid. The first bad decision was to use a caller-ID spoofer to make it look like…