Egyptian-Born MD Gets $2.5M in Search Suit

[Eugene]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5298914,00.html

Egyptian-Born MD Gets $2.5M in Search Suit


Saturday September 24, 2005 2:31 AM

PITTSBURGH (AP) - A federal jury awarded an Egyptian-born radiologist
nearly $2.5 million for invasion of privacy after a property manager
searched his apartment and called police on Sept. 11, 2001.

After four days of deliberations, the jury issued the award Thursday
to Basem M.F. Hussein, saying the invasion of his privacy was made
with "malice of reckless indifference" to his rights.

Sherri Lynn Wilson had entered Hussein's apartment in Coraopolis the
day of the attacks to replace furnace filters, according to testimony.
She told the FBI she saw Arabic literature, an airplane flight manual,
a compact disc jacket that showed an exploding airplane, and chemical
residue she believed to be from bomb-making activities.

What she actually saw was a popular flight simulator computer game
and its CD jacket, which did not depict an exploding airplane,
Hussein's attorney said. The purported Arabic literature was an
English version of the Koran; the chemical residue was household dust.

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1. This is why trial lawyers are good

and why the right wing demonizes them.

We have lost all other checks against government abuse, except the remnants of the English common law tort.