Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
Vallejos and Domingo v. Commissioner of Registration was a court case against the government of Hong Kong by two foreign domestic helpers (FDHs) seeking permanent residence and the right of abode in Hong Kong. Because of its subject matter it was commonly referred to in the media as the FDHs' right of abode case (外傭居港權案). Evangeline Vallejos and Daniel Domingo were two of five applicants who in various groups filed three right of abode lawsuits in 2010; the ruling in Vallejos' case was expected to be a precedent for the other two.
Driver's Privacy Protection Act
United States Court of Appeals,Eleventh Circuit.James KEHOE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FIDELITY FEDERAL BANK & TRUST, Defendant-Appellee. No. 04-13306, writ denied by SCOTUS in 2006, is considered the "grandfather" of all DPPA litigation. A decision involving the meaning of a comma within the statutory language, permitting the option of actual damages, or liquidated damages of $2500.00 per violation, citing the comma as providing the option. As the Kehoe case was being litigated to various lower levels of court for many years, unbeknownst to Attorney Joseph H. Malley,(Law Offices of Joseph H. Malley, PC, Dallas Texas) he had begun to research the unauthorized access to a client's motor vehicle records in 2004, requesting open records request to the Texas DMV and about 35 other state DMVs. Within days of the kehoe ruling by SCOTUS, now knowing he had SCOTUS precedent Attorney Malley began filing Driver Privacy Protection Act ("DPPA") class actions, a law related to the unauthorized access to DMV records and permitted statutory damages for privacy violations, IE., $2500.00 damage award "per person-per violation, (per company)". Initially filing federal class actions against 3-400+ companies starting in 2006, and continuing to date: