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…
Category: Court
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…
GA: Former Murray 911 dispatcher pleads guilty
Mark Millican reports: A Murray County 911 dispatcher who was fired for illegally tracing a vehicle license plate number while on duty pleaded guilty to felony computer invasion of privacy in Superior Court on Wednesday. Billie Jane Allen, 33, of 356 W. Walnut St., was arrested on June 15, 2009, by the Murray County Sheriff’s…
Nationwide bar to gay ban
Lyle Denniston writes on SCOTUSBlog: Brushing aside Obama Administration arguments that a federal judge could issue only a narrow, limited order against the Pentagon’s “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy against gays in the military services, U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips on Tuesday issued a nationwide ban on any enforcement, ordering an immediate stop to any…