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#4354 From: "tom sisk" <etsisk@...>
Date: Thu Feb 20, 2003 5:16 pm
Subject: Re: press release
etsisk
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Absolutely - I agree with you completely. My only point was that I would not
want the final court outcome to be considered definitive as to the quality
of my work - I do good work, and whether my guy wins in court (or not) is
not indicative of what I did on his behalf.
I can't really address the nature or quality of the training one gets with
this franchise operation, because I don't have any express information about
it. There would seem to be some inherent problems with it, but I don't know
that that is the reality of their business. Not enough info.

>
> While this is in my opinion and way to fast turn $$ it is not the way I
want
> to do it nor does our organization.

Tom Sisk
E. Thomas Sisk Investigations
PO Box 9234
Chapel Hill, NC 27312
(919) 218-8956
(888) 605-0923 pager
etsi@...

#4355 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:00 pm
Subject: Investigators needed - Colorado Springs/Denver CO Area
dhp@...
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Good morning group.

We are losing our agent that was covering the Colorado Springs & Denver CO
areas for us.

If anyone covers this area and can handle the types of assignments we have
recently posted, please email me your information so that we can have it on
file.

I thank you for your assistance in advance.

Enjoy the weekend.

David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4356 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Fri Feb 21, 2003 4:37 pm
Subject: Hillsville, VA 24343
dhp@...
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Dear Group,

We have an assignment in the following location:

Hillsville, VA 24343

This assignment requires a quick personal contact at the business
location, two photographs, either 35mm or digital, to be emailed and
a very brief, report on the contact. This assignment requires completion
within two business days.

This assignment is paid on a flat rate basis, the maximum being $75.00.
If you or your agency routinely operates in this area and are interested
in taking this assignment, please reply via private email to
dhp@... for case details. It is very important to reply
with the CITY & STATE you are replying about in the "subject line"
of your emails.

Thanks,
David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4357 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:31 pm
Subject: Omaha, NE 68136
dhp@...
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Dear Group,

We have an assignment in the following location:

Omaha, NE 68136

This assignment requires a quick personal contact at the business
location, two photographs, either 35mm or digital, to be emailed and
a very brief, report on the contact. This assignment requires completion
within two business days.

This assignment is paid on a flat rate basis, the maximum being $75.00.
If you or your agency routinely operates in this area and are interested
in taking this assignment, please reply via private email to
dhp@... for case details. It is very important to reply
with the CITY & STATE you are replying about in the "subject line"
of your emails.

Thanks,
David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4358 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:15 pm
Subject: NY Collection Agency Needed
dhp@...
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I am in need of a Collection Agency that cover the NYC area.  If anyone
knows of someone please forward their information to me or pass on my
information to them.

I thank you in advance.

David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4359 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Sat Feb 22, 2003 3:38 pm
Subject: Hillsville, VA 24343 - Handled
dhp@...
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Thanks to all that responded.

David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4360 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Sat Feb 22, 2003 3:39 pm
Subject: Omaha, NE 68136 - Handled
dhp@...
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Thanks to all that responded.


David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4361 From: Jurydoctor@...
Date: Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:39 am
Subject: Harris' stepdaughter sues detectives
jurydoctor
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>  Harris' stepdaughter sues detectives over movie deal
>
> Harris' stepdaughter sues detectives over movie deal
> By RUTH RENDON
> Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
>
> GALVESTON -- A Clear Lake private detective agency that sold the rights to
> a TV movie based on dentist Clara Harris, who was convicted last week of
> killing her unfaithful orthodontist husband, was sued Thursday by Harris'
> stepdaughter.
>
> Attorneys for 17-year-old Lindsey Harris and her mother, Debra Shank,
> amended their wrongful-death lawsuit filed last year to include Blue Moon
> Investigations. The amended petition seeks to prevent the company from
> profiting from any movie about Clara Harris and her husband, David Harris;
> his mistress, Gail Bridges; or Lindsey Harris.
>
> Also listed as defendants in the lawsuit, filed in a Galveston County
> probate court, are Bobbi and Lucas Bacha, the owners of Blue Moon
> Investigations, which operates under SRSI Legal & Claims Services; and the
> Nassau Bay Hilton, where David Harris, 44, was struck and killed July 24.
> Clara Harris, who hired Blue Moon a day earlier to get incriminating photos
> of her husband with Bridges, also is a defendant.
>
> A jury in Houston last week convicted Harris of murder and sentenced her to
> 20 years in prison. She was found guilty of running over David Harris with
> her vehicle in the Hilton parking lot while Lindsey was a front-seat
> passenger.
>
> Clara Harris' lawyer, George Parnham, has said the conviction will be
> appealed.
>
> "Despite its integral role in the tragedy that left Lindsey Harris and her
> two half-brothers, Brian and Bradley, without a father, defendant Blue Moon
> and Bobbi Bacha embarked on a publicity-hounding schedule of interviews
> regarding their involvement in the complex web of relationships surrounding
> the death of David L. Harris," the lawsuit says.
>
> CBS announced earlier this week that a movie was being developed. Storyline
> Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television purchased an option on the story
> through William Morris Agency, which was hired by Blue Moon and the Bachas.
>
>
> The lawsuit says any money the detective agency and the Bachas have or will
> earn should be placed in a constructive trust controlled by the three
> Harris children, who will give the money to charity.
>
> "Lindsey and the family want that money to be turned over to children's
> victims charity in the Harris County and Galveston area," lawyer Martin
> Weber said. "The family's position is that they were not going to sell the
> story and they don't think anybody should profit from the sale of the
> story, particularly Blue Moon. Turning the money over to a charity is one
> way to assure that nobody profits from it."
>
> Bobbi Bacha called the lawsuit frivolous.
>
> "I wish that she would have just stayed home with those babies that night,"
> she said of Clara Harris. "If she would have just been satisfied we were
> there, none of this would have happened. She could have taken him to the
> cleaners."
>
>
> Bacha said her firm was not aware Harris and her stepdaughter were looking
> for David Harris.
>
> "Had Clara said, `I'm in my car. I'm looking for him,' we would have called
> off the contract," she said.
>
> Regarding Hilton, the lawsuit says the hotel failed to train employees in
> dealing with domestic disputes, didn't call police and didn't detain the
> parties until police arrived.
>
> A representative for the hotel, which is owned by New Clear Lake Hotel
> Limited Partnership, could not be reached for comment at the Dallas office
> Thursday.
>
> The lawsuit also asks that a summary judgment be issued and all life
> insurance benefits be placed in a constructive trust and split among the
> three children.
>
> David Harris named his wife as sole beneficiary of his will and three life
> insurance policies totaling $6.25 million. About $3 million in life
> insurance proceeds have gone toward paying off loans, Weber said.
>
> Texas probate and insurance codes specify that anyone found to have
> willfully brought about the death of an insured is ineligible to collect
> life insurance proceeds as a beneficiary.
>
> A week after David Harris' death, Lindsey Harris and her mother, who live
> in Columbus, Ohio, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to freeze his assets.
> The case was moved to a Galveston County probate court.
>
> http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1788549
>
>

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#4362 From: "David Kopel" <david@...>
Date: Fri Feb 21, 2003 7:14 pm
Subject: Subservice @ residence in: Moss Point, MS
david@...
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Dear group:

We have a 5-page faxable document for subservice at:  4319 Seven trees Court,
Moss Point, MS 39563

Please advise your flat fee for service, fax#, ph# and mailing address.


David Kopel, President 410-823-4444 ext 118
www.LEGALPAPERS.net & david@...
"Turning Judgments into Garnishments"



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#4363 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Mon Feb 24, 2003 8:18 pm
Subject: Billings, MT 59101
dhp@...
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Dear Group,

We have an assignment in the following location:

Billings, MT 59101

This assignment requires a quick personal contact at the business
location, two photographs, either 35mm or digital, to be emailed and
a very brief, report on the contact. This assignment requires completion
within two business days.

This assignment is paid on a flat rate basis, the maximum being $75.00.
If you or your agency routinely operates in this area and are interested
in taking this assignment, please reply via private email to
dhp@... for case details. It is very important to reply
with the CITY & STATE you are replying about in the "subject line"
of your emails.

Thanks,
David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4364 From: "rbr007" <rbr007@...>
Date: Tue Feb 25, 2003 12:01 am
Subject: Commercial Collection Question
superslueth_...
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I have a case where a collector is telling a business that the business
cannot dispute a debt under any Federal or State Law.  Here is the actual
statement made by the collector. "I must advise you under no state or
federal law can you at anytime dispute a commercial debt."

He also told the man that collectors can call a business anytime without
having to obey a "Cease and Desist" order.

Is any or all of this correct?

If it is true, I am getting ready to tell a lot of businesses they owe me
big money and they cannot dispute my claim.  I was wondering if I would ever
get rich.

With best regards, I remain...

Very truly yours,

Rus B. Robison


Rus B. Robison and Associates, Inc.
Private Investigators
Post Office Box 720560
Oklahoma City, OK 73172-0560
(405) 721-2295  Voice

rbr@...

Oklahoma's FIRST State Licensed Private Investigation Agency   (88PIA-1)

Serving all of Oklahoma and the Great Southwest since 1972.

#4365 From: "David Kopel" <david@...>
Date: Mon Feb 24, 2003 9:23 pm
Subject: Maryland -- Allegehny County -- Personal service only
david@...
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We have a document for MT. Savage, Md 21545.

Please advise your fee, fax#, ph# and address so we can mail our check....


David Kopel, President 410-823-4444 ext 118
www.LEGALPAPERS.net & david@...
"Turning Judgments into Garnishments"



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#4366 From: "tom sisk" <etsisk@...>
Date: Tue Feb 25, 2003 4:10 am
Subject: Re: Commercial Collection Question
etsisk
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CAVEAT: I am not an attorney and am giving a personal opinion that is not meant
to serve or be taken as legal advice. If you want legal advice, consult an
attorney in your jurisdiction.
With that said, on with my two cents worth. . .

> I have a case where a collector is telling a business that the business
> cannot dispute a debt under any Federal or State Law.  Here is the actual
> statement made by the collector. "I must advise you under no state or
> federal law can you at anytime dispute a commercial debt."
>

Hah! And Double Hah! The courts are full of lawsuits on a daily basis wherein
one party or the other disputes the nature or fact of the debt.

> He also told the man that collectors can call a business anytime without
> having to obey a "Cease and Desist" order.

I would most certainly imagine that the judge who issued that order would be
very interested in knowing that the collector was willfully and knowingly
disobeying it. I am not a psychic, but were the judge to find out, I see a "show
cause order" in the collectors near future. Never heard of a bill collector more
powerful than a judge.


> Is any or all of this correct?

I don't know about OK, but in my contracts law class it surely isn't.
Again, I'm not an attorney, but the collector sounds waaay out of line. Have
your client call the Attorney General's Office and inquire as to the Oklahoma
law concerning this sort of behavior.

Tom Sisk
E. Thomas Sisk Investigations
P.O. Box 9234
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
(919) 218-8956 cell
(888) 605-0923 pager
etsi@...





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#4367 From: "David Kopel" <david@...>
Date: Tue Feb 25, 2003 4:19 pm
Subject: Yonkers New York --- Subservice @ a residence
david@...
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Dear group:

We have a 3-page faxable document for service at a residence.

What is your flat fee, fax#, ph# and address so I can fax it today and mail the
check this afternoon.


David Kopel, President 410-823-4444 ext 118
www.LEGALPAPERS.net & david@...
"Turning Judgments into Garnishments"



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#4368 From: jamersrescue@...
Date: Tue Feb 25, 2003 9:12 am
Subject: Moss Point, MS
jamersrescue@...
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David, Do you still need subservice in Moss Point, MS.

Jimmy Taylor

#4369 From: "David Kopel" <david@...>
Date: Tue Feb 25, 2003 7:46 pm
Subject: Bronx, NY -- Subservice @ a residence
david@...
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Dear group:

We have a 13-page faxable document to be served or subserved at this address:

3633" Sedgewick Ave, Apt# 4-f, Bronx Ny 10463

It expires on 3-9-03 and to speed up the service, What is your price, fax#, ph#
and mailing address.?  (please no phone calls)



David Kopel, President 410-823-4444 ext 118
www.LEGALPAPERS.net & david@...
"Turning Judgments into Garnishments"



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#4370 From: CindySchaefer <labellest@...>
Date: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:01 pm
Subject: Re: Billings, MT 59101
paralegalinv...
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David,

I used to live and work in Billings, Mt.  If you can't find anyone else, there
should be an Equifax office there, whose reps could easily do this for you.  You
could also try insurance adjusters.  I have done this numerous times for
isolated assignments.

Cindy Thacker Schaefer
Attorney Assistance, Inc.
Dayton, OH





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#4371 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Wed Feb 26, 2003 8:24 pm
Subject: Friendswood & Dickinson TX Assignment
dhp@...
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I have an assignment in the above areas.  I need someone to go to 2 address
and determine if equipment is located at either place.  No direct contact
needs to be made.  If the items are located the client will send someone to
pick up the items.

If you routinely work this area and are available to handle this within the
next few days please email me with costs.

Thanks,

David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4372 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Wed Feb 26, 2003 11:18 pm
Subject: Billings, MT 59101 - Handled
dhp@...
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Thanks to all that responded.

  David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4373 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Wed Feb 26, 2003 11:17 pm
Subject: Friendswood & Dickinson TX Assignment - Handled
dhp@...
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Thanks to all that responded.

  David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4374 From: "David Kopel" <david@...>
Date: Thu Feb 27, 2003 3:03 pm
Subject: Rate Increases ---- State of Maryland ONLY!
david@...
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Dear group:

If your a process server in the State of Maryland, has anyone increased their
rates due to the increase of gas/oil prices?

By how much and in what counties?







David Kopel, President 410-823-4444 ext 118
www.LEGALPAPERS.net & david@...
"Turning Judgments into Garnishments"



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#4375 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:29 pm
Subject: Plainwell, MI 49080
dhp@...
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Dear Group,

We have an assignment in the following location:

Plainwell, MI 49080

This assignment requires a quick personal contact at the business
location, two photographs, either 35mm or digital, to be emailed and
a very brief, report on the contact. This assignment requires completion
within two business days.

This assignment is paid on a flat rate basis, the maximum being $75.00.
If you or your agency routinely operates in this area and are interested
in taking this assignment, please reply via private email to
dhp@... for case details. It is very important to reply
with the CITY & STATE you are replying about in the "subject line"
of your emails.

Thanks,
David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4376 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:30 pm
Subject: Minneapolis, MN 55434
dhp@...
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Dear Group,

We have an assignment in the following location:

Minneapolis, MN 55434

This assignment requires a quick personal contact at the business
location, two photographs, either 35mm or digital, to be emailed and
a very brief, report on the contact. This assignment requires completion
within two business days.

This assignment is paid on a flat rate basis, the maximum being $75.00.
If you or your agency routinely operates in this area and are interested
in taking this assignment, please reply via private email to
dhp@... for case details. It is very important to reply
with the CITY & STATE you are replying about in the "subject line"
of your emails.

Thanks,
David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4377 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Thu Feb 27, 2003 10:34 pm
Subject: Dickson, TN 37055
dhp@...
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Dear Group,

We have an assignment in the following location:

Dickson, TN 37055

This assignment requires a quick personal contact at the business
location, two photographs, either 35mm or digital, to be emailed and
a very brief, report on the contact. This assignment requires completion
within two business days.

This assignment is paid on a flat rate basis, the maximum being $75.00.
If you or your agency routinely operates in this area and are interested
in taking this assignment, please reply via private email to
dhp@... for case details. It is very important to reply
with the CITY & STATE you are replying about in the "subject line"
of your emails.

Thanks,
David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4378 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:14 am
Subject: Dickson, TN 37055 - Handled
dhp@...
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Thanks to all that responded.

David H. Press
dhp@...
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4379 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:15 am
Subject: Minneapolis, MN 55434 - Handled
dhp@...
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Thanks to all that responded.

David H. Press
dhp@...
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4380 From: "tprla <TPRLA@...>" <TPRLA@...>
Date: Wed Feb 26, 2003 7:19 pm
Subject: Need Help Regarding Wiretapping Statutes
tprla
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Does anyone know of a resource that addresses wiretapping statutes in
the 50 states and U.S. territories, or has anyone recently prepared
such a report for a client?  Specifically, I need to know the laws in
each state as they pertain to a private investigator conducting
surveillance using covert video (both with or without an audio
track).

If anyone has been down this road before and can point me in the
right direction or is interested in compiling a comprehensive report
addressing these issues, please let me know.  Thank you.

Cordially,

/s/ Tom Riley

Law Offices of Thomas P. Riley, P.C.
727 West Seventh Street, Suite 722
Los Angeles, CA 90017-3714
Phone: (800) 590-5511; (213) 488-9292
Fax: (866) 242-8905; (213) 488-9295
TPRLA@...

#4381 From: foxgrantuk@...
Date: Fri Feb 28, 2003 9:32 am
Subject: Re: press release
foxgrantuk@...
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hi Group you may be interested to know of a site here in the UK that has
just started to enable agents to know who are bad/slow payers.

  <A HREF="http://hometown.aol.co.uk/enquiryagent/index.html">Ask before you
accept the instruction</A>

With advance knowledge of their performance,  it means agents can either
accept the instruction or insist on an advance fee.

If you have similar agents or lawyers that you feel we all ought to know
about,  either side of the water then you can Email the site at
EnquiryAgent@....

Cheers,  Martin Grant

F O X   G R A N T   A G E N C Y
Solicitors Agents, Process Servers & Enquiry Agents

Telephone:  01235  769769
Email:  <A HREF="http://www.enquiryagent.net/">foxgrantuk@...</A>
Website: www.enquiryagent.net  <A HREF="http://www.enquiryagent.net/">Fox Grant
Uk Solicitors 1st Choice</A>
fax: 01235 772323
DX 40764 Wantage
Waterside Chambers,  Station Road, Oxfordshire, OX12 0DH.
Martin Grant  member of the Association of British Investigators
You may not see us,  but we can be there
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#4382 From: "David H. Press" <dhp@...>
Date: Fri Feb 28, 2003 10:19 pm
Subject: Columbia, SC 29223
dhp@...
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Dear Group,

We have an assignment in the following location:

Columbia, SC 29223

This assignment requires a quick personal contact at the business
location, two photographs, either 35mm or digital, to be emailed and
a very brief, report on the contact. This assignment requires completion
within two business days.

This assignment is paid on a flat rate basis, the maximum being $75.00.
If you or your agency routinely operates in this area and are interested
in taking this assignment, please reply via private email to
dhp@... for case details. It is very important to reply
with the CITY & STATE you are replying about in the "subject line"
of your emails.

Thanks,
David H. Press
dhp@...
Press Investigations Inc.
3 Danada Square East #262
Wheaton, IL 60187
630-637-4008

#4383 From: ivey@...
Date: Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:06 pm
Subject: Something of interest to all
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Something I read in the American Bar Association Journal

©2003 ABA Journal


       Friday, February 28, 2003









       DEADLY INFORMATION
       Court Says Information Brokers Can Be Held Liable for Foreseeable Harm

       BY MOLLY McDONOUGH

       Amy Lynn Boyer hardly knew Liam Youens. They met in an eighth-grade youth
group but didn’t become friends. In 10th grade they shared a class, and he
became obsessed with her. After high school, Youens paid more than $200 to an
Internet company for information about her, including her Social Security number
and work address. In October 1999, Youens waited for 20-year-old Boyer after
work. He fatally shot her, and then Youens, 21, committed suicide.

       Boyer’s mother, Helen Remsburg of Nashua, New Hampshire, sued the
Florida-based company that sold Boyer’s personal information to her killer.
Remsburg won a major victory this month when the state supreme court ruled that
information brokers and private investigators who provide information to
stalkers and identity thieves can be held liable for their actions.

       "This decision really says there has to be some responsibility in handling
personal information," says Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel at the Washington,
D.C.-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, which wrote an amicus brief in
the case.

       Remsburg claims Docusearch Inc. violated Boyer’s privacy. She is seeking a
jury trial. But Docusearch, which works primarily for commercial clients,
including law firms, argues it provided only public information. The company
asked U.S. District Judge Paul Barbadoro to dismiss the suit on a proximate
cause claim, because Youens already had Boyer’s home address when he contacted
Docusearch for more information.

       Barbadoro passed the case to the New Hampshire Supreme Court to clarify
state law on five points. On Feb. 18, the court issued an opinion siding with
Remsburg on three of the five points. Boyer v. Docusearch Inc., No. 2002-255.

       The court found first that private investigators and information brokers
are obligated to those about whom they provide information if there is
foreseeable harm, as in cases of stalking and identity theft.

       The court also found there is a reasonable expectation of privacy
regarding Social Security numbers, but that work addresses are public.

       The court said it is a fact question, though, whether revealing a Social
Security number is "offensive to a person of ordinary sensibilities" so as to
support the tort of intrusion upon seclusion.

       The court recognized a cause of action for invasion of privacy by
appropriation of a person’s name or likeness, but did not find appropriation in
this case. Docusearch obtained Boyer’s Social Security number from a
credit-reporting agency without her permission, but only sold it to Youens for
the value of the information. Appropriation requires proof of taking advantage
of someone’s reputation or prestige, the court said. It occurs most often when a
defendant uses a person’s name or likeness to advertise a product or when the
defendant impersonates a person for gain.

       Finally, the court found that pretextual calls used to obtain and sell
information violate the state’s consumer protection laws. Docusearch had hired
an investigator, Michelle Gambino, who called and lied to Boyer to get her work
address. Docusearch had argued pretext was a legitimate investigative tool.

       Gambino's New York City attorney Steve Ross says his client is happy the
court dismissed two of the counts that could have negatively impacted Gambino:
commercial appropriation and intrusion upon seclusion. As for the issue of
pretext, Ross says that as a matter of law Miss Gambino could not have foreseen
the danger that faced Boyer. "We don't believe under the remaining counts that
she is liable in any way," Ross says.

       Bedford lawyer Andrew Schulman, who represents Docusearch and other
defendants, declined comment.

       Youens created a Web site to keep meticulous logs of his plans to murder
Boyer and possibly her family. He also posted his efforts to locate additional
information about Boyer.

       "I found an internet site to do that, and to my surprize everything else
under the Sun. Most importantly: her current employment. It’s accually obsene
what you can find out about a person on the internet [sic]," Youens writes on
his Web site, which Boyer’s family has maintained at www.amyboyer.org as part of
a memorial and a call to action to fight similar violence.

       Youens praises Docusearch on the site for pulling through "amazingly. ...
It’s like a dream."

       The New Hampshire court found that stalking and identity theft are
foreseeable risks that warrant a duty by investigators "to exercise reasonable
care in disclosing" information to a client, especially when "the investigator
does not know the client or the client’s purpose in seeking the information."

       Private investigators, who filed their own amicus brief in the case, are
not as upset by the ruling as some expected. Most of a private investigator’s
business wouldn’t fall into actionable categories.

       "The decision didn’t say anything that our professional association
doesn’t already hold true and dear," says John M. Healy, president of the New
Hampshire League of Investigators. Healy, however, is concerned with how the
decision will be seen and used by the public to promulgate more restrictive
laws. He points out that if private investigators lose the ability to work
effectively, then the legal, insurance and business communities also will
suffer.

       "There has to be a balancing act in terms of access to information," says
Healy, who adds that 90 percent of his business comes from law firms. "We need
privacy, but we have to make sure we don’t throw out the baby with the
bathwater."

       Healy also distinguished between regulated investigative work and
reselling information. He says legitimate investigators ordinarily wouldn’t
disclose a person’s whereabouts to a client. "It’s legal to do it, but [to me]
that’s overstepping the bounds of propriety." Healy says the industry standard
is to give the found person the choice to contact the client.









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