FC: City of Kirkland drops lawsuit aginst Justicefiles.org

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Kirkland of course is that free-speech-friendly town that decided it would 
be a good use of tax dollars to send lawyergrams to Politech:
http://www.politechbot.com/kirkland/

Politech archive on Justicefiles.org controversy:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=justicefiles

-Declan

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http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=website28e&date=20020628&query=sheehan

Friday, June 28, 2002
City withdraws police-privacy lawsuit

By Michael Ko
Seattle Times Eastside bureau

The city of Kirkland has withdrawn its $609,000 lawsuit against a Mill 
Creek man who posted personal information about the city's police officers 
on the Internet, hoping instead that a new state statute will ensure that 
his controversial Web site remains shut down.

Gail Gorud, the Kirkland city attorney, said the city's legal arguments 
were ineffective because they relied too much on general themes such as 
personal privacy and the First Amendment.

"The new statute is specific to exactly what we're interested in," Gorud 
said yesterday.

Elena Garella, an attorney representing Web-site author Bill Sheehan, 
interpreted the city's actions as a "significant victory" for her client. 
"The city was losing at every turn," she said.

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