What is almost certain to be a landmark court case on internet privacy and the liability of hosting sites starts tomorrow in an Italian court with Google executives as the defendants. The case began in 2006, when four boys in Turin verbally and physically harassed a classmate with Down’s Syndrome. The boy was so upset…
Category: Court
McDonald’s: sue our employee instead of us
In November 2008, McDonald’s customers Phillip and Tina Sherman sued McDonald’s Corp., Matthews Management Co., owner of the McDonald’s franchise in Fayetteville, and Aaron Brummley, manager at the restaurant, alleging that an employee uploaded nude photos to the internet from their cell phone which they had accidentally left at the store. In April, a judge…
Locklear Electric files two new class actions over unsolicited faxes
A Wood River electric company has filed two new separate class action lawsuits against a chiropractor’s office and a real estate company, alleging the office and company sent unsolicited faxes to it, causing a waste of paper and employee time. Both complaints by Locklear Electric are nearly identical and were filed on the same day…
Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty sues TSA
The American Civil Liberties Union may have just earned itself a few more Republican admirers. Announcing a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the “illegal” detention of the Campaign for Liberty’s treasurer in April at a St. Louis airport, the ACLU damned what it called a “troubling pattern” of aggressive invasions of privacy by…