Adam Lynn and Joyce Chen report on the outcome of a lawsuit against the Puyallup School District filed by four students over publication of their names in a story on oral sex in the student newspaper. The case was previously covered on PogoWasRight.org here and here: A Pierce County jury found Wednesday that the Emerald…
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How Renting, Not Owning an iPhone Could Have Saved Gizmodo: Expert
Dan Nosowitz writes about the Gizmodo case: … To figure out what’s what, I talked with Lawrence J. Siskind, a former special counsel to President Ronald Reagan and partner in the San Francisco law firm Harvey Siskind LLP, which specializes in trade secrets. […] If you’re Star magazine, you don’t buy the sex tape, you…
Jury deadlocked in Palin hacking case
A jury was deadlocked today in the case of a college student accused of hacking into the email of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The jury attempted to declare a mistrial on one of the four felonies, but the judge ordered them to continue deliberating, WATE-TV of Knoxville reported. An undisclosed, unanimous decision was…
Palin e-mail hacking case: jury wants to see the law
The jury in the David Kernell hacking case is in their third day of deliberations, and Bill Poovey of the Associated Press is now reporting that the jury has asked to see part of a law that is part of the identity theft charge. The judge after a discussion with the chief prosecutor and defense…