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Court ponders if lawyers can use records to find clients 

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    • January 10, 2013

WASHINGTON – The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court tried to dissect the language of a poorly worded federal statute that protects drivers’ personal information from misuse in an effort to determine whether lawyers broke the law in looking for potential class action plaintiffs.
“What a mess this statute is,” » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2013/01/10/court-ponders-if-lawyers-can-use-records-to-find-clients/

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