Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
Vallejos and Daniel Domingo appealed their cases to the Court of Final Appeal, and were respectively assigned the case numbers FACV 19 and 20/2012. They would be represented before the CFA by Michael Fordham; David Pannick continued to represent the Government. Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma rejected a further application for joinder by eight-year-old Liang Wing-ki, the Hong Kong-born daughter of mainland parents, whose next friend, mother Li Yinxian, filed suit on her behalf. Philip Dykes, for the applicant, argued that because Vallejos and Domingo's case would touch on issues of interpretation of the Basic Law under Article 158, Liang's interests would also be affected. In rejecting Liang's application, Ma stated: "We feel that the points you seem to argue are adequately covered and will be adequately covered". Liang and other Hong Kong-born children like her were ruled to be entitled to the right of abode in Hong Kong in the 2001 case "Director of Immigration v. Chong Fung Yuen".
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: