A ruling by Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Robert Kelly Jr., if it stands, wards off a potential judgment of $3 million in damages a patients' advocacy company sought from Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey for allegedly fetching protected pages using an archive search tool. Kelly found the firm was viewing Web pages that were publicly accessible -- even if mistakenly so. "They did not 'pick the lock' and avoid or bypass the protective measure, because there was no lock to pick," Kelly wrote.
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Federal Judge Clears Law Firm Accused of Hacking Opponents' Web Archives
New Jersey Law Journal
July 24, 2007
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