Mike Carter reports on the first anti-SLAPP ruling in Washington: A federal magistrate judge in Tacoma has thrown out key claims in a lawsuit filed against controversial filmmaker Michael Moore and his Academy Award-nominated documentary “Sicko,” the first use of a state law that bars lawsuits targeting conduct associated with free speech and the First…
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Another lawsuit challenges ObamaCare on privacy grounds
Back in April, I posted something about a l
Ca: Conviction overturned as search ruled unreasonable
Keith Fraser reports that the B.C. Court of Appeal overturned a conviction based on an unreasonable search and seizure. Reading the description, I doubt that the courts here would have ruled the search unreasonable and excluded the evidence, but see what you think. Here’s the part of Fraser’s report that summarizes the RMCP’s…
Defendant incriminates Deutsche Telekom boss in illegal search
The Deutsche Telekom spying trial took a dramatic turn on its opening day Friday when the main accused, Klaus Trzeschan, made a partial admission and incriminated the company’s then boss Kai-Uwe Ricke. Trzeschan, the former head of company security, told a court in Bonn that the gathering of phone records had been carried out “without…