Gary Pinnell reports: The wrongful termination lawsuit by three Highlands County employees was dismissed last week in Fort Myers by U.S. District Court Judge Jose Martinez. Treasa Handley, Jared Lee and Christine Edwards sued the county after they were fired for sending sexually laced instant messages to each other. Eleven other county employees were disciplined…
Category: Court
Newspaper responds to lawsuit
Stephanie Porter-Nichols and Daniel Gilbert report: The Smyth County News & Messenger has responded to a $1 million defamation lawsuit by a Chilhowie woman, arguing that the article in controversy was a “substantially accurate” report of a court record and a police statement. The newspaper filed the response last Friday in Smyth County Circuit Court…
Thoughts on the Oral Argument in the Third Circuit Cell-Site Records Case
Over on The Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr blogs about oral arguments in a case before the Third Circuit in which the government wants cell phone location data to be made available to it without any warrant: The Third Circuit held oral argument today in the case on the legal standard for historical cell-site information. I…
IL: Kane County judge dismisses ID theft case
Josh Stockinger reports: A Kane County judge dismissed identity theft charges against an Aurora woman this week after her attorney argued the state statute under which she was charged is unconstitutional. Claudia G. Madrigal, 33, had been accused of using her position at a Batavia insurance company to access another woman’s personal information in January…