Abe vs Goliath in Florida court: Goliath wins

[John Cottingham <jcott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

National Parkinson Foundation announced on their website that they have
taken Dr. Abraham Lieberman, their former employee, to court over the
misuse of their database to solicit subscribers to 
parkinsonaskthedoctor.com

Doctor Lieberman was the person behind the tremendously popular Ask The
Doctor pages on the NPF website.

Sufficient evidence was presented by NPF to convince the judge that Dr.
Lieberman used the tools at his disposal in connection with his employment
with NPF to create personal websites that used the names in the NPF
database to send solicitation letters to NPF subscribers.

Dr. Lieberman, who also has Parkinson's, was one of the early researchers
in Parkinson's research before coming with NPF.

In addition to $5,000 in attorney's fees awarded to NPF, several other
matters like turning over to NPF any NPF properties that he might possess.
He must allow NPF to have an agent inspect all of Dr. Lieberman's computers
and delete all NPF related database information. Persons unknown who
assisted Dr. Lieberman in drafting or sending solicitation emails must
delete all of those email solicitations.

Websites are prohibited from disclosing the contents of the NPF database,
regardless even if not disclosed by Dr. Lieberman.

As of today, Tuesday, 22, March, all of the websites owned by Dr. Lieberman
were not to be found on the internet. In the consent decree, their
ownership had to be transferred to NPF and shut down by them.

Dr. Lieberman, bloodied but still resolute has not been heard from.

It is unusual for the National Parkinson Foundation to go to court and
sully the name of one of Parkinson's most revered names. Perhaps the change
at the top of NPF is bringing about change in the business of Parkinson's.

NPF has a booth at the Parkinson's Unity Walk, April 16th in New York
City's Central Park. Stop by at give them your opinion.

John Cottingham

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