Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
On 30 September 2011, Justice Johnson Lam of the Court of First Instance of the High Court (CFI) ruled in Vallejos' case that existing legislation restricting FDHs from qualifying for permanent residence contravened the Hong Kong Basic Law. Lam also found that Vallejos and Domingo, but not the three other applicants, had fulfilled the condition of taking Hong Kong as their only permanent home and being ordinarily resident in Hong Kong for seven years. The Court of Appeal of the High Court overturned the CFI's decision on Vallejos' case on 28 March 2012. Vallejos and Domingo then jointly appealed to the Court of Final Appeal (CFA), which heard their case on 26–28 February 2013; the CFA rejected their appeal on 25 March 2013.
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: