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purejuice ([personal profile] purejuice) wrote2011-07-17 11:26 am

Here's the Stateside Murdoch Angle: Will It Fly?

Jude Law claims NotW hacked his phone while he was in America. That opens the Murdochs up for possible prosecution here.

Brian Kabateck, a Los Angeles lawyer who has represented victims of phone hacking in the U.S. told the Daily Telegraph: 'If phones or messages were hacked while these individuals were here in the US, this would clearly be a criminal offence under the federal wiretap acts.
'The authorities take this very seriously here. As well as being an offence under federal status, the victims would also have the right to bring a civil damages case.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2015624/Rupert-Murdoch-face-US-court-Jude-Law-phone-hacking-NY-claim.html#ixzz1SO58nlYF


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8642624/Jude-Law-claims-he-was-victim-of-News-of-the-World-phone-hacking-in-US.html