Jim Schultz reports: An appellate court on Thursday upheld a ruling by a Shasta County Superior Court judge who issued a preliminary injunction last year against the Shasta Union High School District that ordered it to stop drug testing nonathletes. In its 31-page ruling, the Third District Court of Appeal said the school district failed…
Category: Court
In the midst of Assange’s legal woes in Sweden, another lawsuit
While charges against Julian Assange have been reinstated in Sweden — probably to the great surprise of his attorney who had opined that the interview with the prosecutors had gone “very well” and that he expected all charges to be dropped — Assange is also facing a lawsuit in the U.S. Unlike the Swedish charges,…
Illinois AG sues ID Lifeguards for fake charges on residents’ phone bills
First Lifelock got into trouble over its business practices. Now it’s ID Lifeguards. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Sangamon County Circuit Court alleging that a Web-based California business signed up and charged thousands of Illinois consumers for identity protection assistance even though the consumers never asked to purchase such a service….
Macmillan pays heavily for violation of privacy
Gowenius Toka reports: Botswana’s popular publishing company, Macmillan Botswana, avoided being arraigned before the Lobatse High Court last week by settling out of court, after publishing without consent, the photo of a certain Botsanyang Motswere in a school textbook under a chapter on HIV and AIDS next to a caption that implied she was a…