Friday, May 3, 2024

His Nickname is Mikey

A New Jersey federal judge has agreed to vacate a $361,000 verdict against a law professor who a jury determined illegally wiretapped her former son-in-law and invaded his privacy. 

The court offered no reasoning for its decision. 

The law professor's former son-in-law, Andrew Burki, had argued that there was enough evidence presented at trial for jurors to determine that conversations between him and his son recorded on a secret device sewn into the boy's overalls by the law professor, Claire LaRoche, were not meant for public consumption and that he had an expectation of privacy regarding them. more