Natasha Korecki reports: There’s no question TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau urged his followers to deluge a federal judge with emails as the judge prepared to make a key decision in his case. But appellate court judges this morning questioned whether U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman stepped out of bounds by ordering Trudeau to spend 30…
Category: Court
Facebook slander mum hits back at son
The mother of a 16-year-old boy said she was only being a good mother when she locked him out of his Facebook account after reading he had driven home at 150km/h one night because he was mad at a girl. His response: a harassment complaint at the local courthouse. “If I’m found guilty on this…
Prosecutor who unmasked blogger may not have immunity – court
As a follow-up to a case in Florida that was mentioned on this site last year, there’s a decision in the case of Tom Rich and his wife, who had sued the Jacksonville Police Department for “outing” Rich to his church as the author of a blog critical of the church. Rich had been blogging…
Judge Demands $50 Million From Plain Dealer
I was waiting for the other shoe to drop on this one, and now it has. As reported previously, the Cleveland Plain Dealer recently unmasked an online commenter and identified her as a judge. Now the judge is suing the paper for $50 million. Jeff Gorman of Courthouse News reports: A state court judge demands…