A porn film actress whose positive HIV test made news in June claims [pdf] state health officials violated her rights by demanding her medical records. Filing her complaint under the name “Patient Zero,” the woman sued California OSHA and the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation. Zero claims that after she tested positive for HIV, the…
Category: Court
Judge OKs anon comments, some bloggers don’t
There are a couple of interesting new posts around the blogosphere concerning anonymous online commenters. The first, over at Volokh, discusses a recent case out of Tennessee, State v. Cobbins, where a judge denied defendants’ motion to require a media outlet to disable a portion of its Web site enabling Web users to post comments…
Tony Trout sentenced for computer spying
A federal judge sentenced former Greenville County councilman Tony Trout to one year in prison on computer spying charges on Wednesday, telling the former police officer that he violated the public’s trust and should be held to a higher standard. In a tearful apology, Trout told U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd that he was wrong…
Google not liable for defamatory search results
Google is not the publisher of defamatory words that appear in its search results, the High Court ruled yesterday. Even when Google had been told that its results contained libellous words, it was not liable as a publisher, said Mr Justice Eady. The search giant’s US and UK operations were sued in England by a…