By Staff - SDNN: San Diego News Network - November 11, 2009
A process server was recovering from a gunshot wound in his leg today and the man who allegedly shot him was in custody, an Escondido police official said.
Burk Neal Ashford, 65, allegedly shot the 50-year-old process server around 9 p.m. Tuesday outside Ashford’s home in the 1400 block of Red Bark Road, said Escondido police Lt. Bob Benton.
Ashford called 911 and said he’d shot the victim in the leg, Benton said. Escondido police officers responding to the call were flagged down by the victim on the street, he said. The victim was taken to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido and treated for a non-life threatening gunshot wound, Benton said.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
4 options when police call about debt
Justin Harelik - Bankrate.com - November 10,2009
Q: Recently I got a call from the police. They told me that a creditor has filed a lawsuit against me as a result of a personal loan from that lender. I made payments and I could not make payments anymore because I lost my job. Now I am still without a job and can't afford to fight any legal battle. What should I do?
A: I completely understand the approach you took to your financial distress: head in the sand. You simply could not pay the debt and could not afford to respond to the lawsuit that the creditor filed against you. So you decided the best approach was to do nothing and hope that ignoring the problem would resolve it. This is not uncommon, but unfortunately, the sheriff's department in your county or town is very aggressive and acts on this type of judicial order.
Here is basically what happened: The lender considered all available options when you started to miss payments. The lender sent letters and made phone calls asking for payment. These collection efforts went unanswered. You had a good reason since you had no job and could not pay. But the creditor does not care.
Then the lender filed a lawsuit against you. The lender was supposed to serve you with papers regarding the lawsuit. This does not always happen. As I have written before, some unscrupulous lenders serve you via "gutter service," meaning the lender's process server -- the person that hands you the lawsuit papers -- simply discards the papers into the gutter and claims he or she served you with them.
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Q: Recently I got a call from the police. They told me that a creditor has filed a lawsuit against me as a result of a personal loan from that lender. I made payments and I could not make payments anymore because I lost my job. Now I am still without a job and can't afford to fight any legal battle. What should I do?
A: I completely understand the approach you took to your financial distress: head in the sand. You simply could not pay the debt and could not afford to respond to the lawsuit that the creditor filed against you. So you decided the best approach was to do nothing and hope that ignoring the problem would resolve it. This is not uncommon, but unfortunately, the sheriff's department in your county or town is very aggressive and acts on this type of judicial order.
Here is basically what happened: The lender considered all available options when you started to miss payments. The lender sent letters and made phone calls asking for payment. These collection efforts went unanswered. You had a good reason since you had no job and could not pay. But the creditor does not care.
Then the lender filed a lawsuit against you. The lender was supposed to serve you with papers regarding the lawsuit. This does not always happen. As I have written before, some unscrupulous lenders serve you via "gutter service," meaning the lender's process server -- the person that hands you the lawsuit papers -- simply discards the papers into the gutter and claims he or she served you with them.
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Buffalo Grove trustee to get name of anonymous poster
Buffalo Grove trustee to get name of anonymous poster who chatted with her son on newspaper Web site
Judge says only she should see identity; woman then to decide on whether to file lawsuit
By Georgia Garvey - Chicago Tribune - November 10, 2009
Buffalo Grove Village Trustee Lisa Stone should be told the name of the man she accuses of making defamatory online comments about her 15-year-old son, a judge ruled Monday in a case being watched for its Internet privacy implications.
Cook County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ordered that the identity of a person known online as Hipcheck16 be turned over to Stone.
"I'm determined that there will be protection on the Internet," particularly for children, said Stone, who was elected in April.
The man posted "deeply disturbing" comments to her son in the aftermath of a bruising election battle, Stone said, adding that once she learns his identity, she will decide whether to file a lawsuit seeking damages.
The comments were posted online April 9 to a story that ran on the Daily Herald's Web site on April 6, the day before the election in which Stone won a seat.
When the newspaper's lawyers said they only had the person's Internet Protocol address, Stone sought the identity from Comcast, the poster's Internet provider.
The judge ruled that only Stone and a process server -- should she decide to take legal action -- may be told the identity of Hipcheck16. Barring an appeal, he said, the court would turn over the information to Stone after another hearing set for Nov. 18.
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Judge says only she should see identity; woman then to decide on whether to file lawsuit
By Georgia Garvey - Chicago Tribune - November 10, 2009
Buffalo Grove Village Trustee Lisa Stone should be told the name of the man she accuses of making defamatory online comments about her 15-year-old son, a judge ruled Monday in a case being watched for its Internet privacy implications.
Cook County Circuit Judge Jeffrey Lawrence ordered that the identity of a person known online as Hipcheck16 be turned over to Stone.
"I'm determined that there will be protection on the Internet," particularly for children, said Stone, who was elected in April.
The man posted "deeply disturbing" comments to her son in the aftermath of a bruising election battle, Stone said, adding that once she learns his identity, she will decide whether to file a lawsuit seeking damages.
The comments were posted online April 9 to a story that ran on the Daily Herald's Web site on April 6, the day before the election in which Stone won a seat.
When the newspaper's lawyers said they only had the person's Internet Protocol address, Stone sought the identity from Comcast, the poster's Internet provider.
The judge ruled that only Stone and a process server -- should she decide to take legal action -- may be told the identity of Hipcheck16. Barring an appeal, he said, the court would turn over the information to Stone after another hearing set for Nov. 18.
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Lindsay's Dad Served in Gosselin Lawsuit
TMZ Staff - Nov 7th 2009 - TMZ.com
When Michael Lohan returns home from his trip to Boston this weekend, he'll have a present waiting for him -- courtesy of the lawyers at TLC.
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When Michael Lohan returns home from his trip to Boston this weekend, he'll have a present waiting for him -- courtesy of the lawyers at TLC.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Unwed parents difficult to track
By Rita Price - THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH - November 1, 2009
A car is in the driveway, but that might not mean much.
Penny Huston knocks on the door and hopes that the person who answers matches the name on the court document in her hand.
Nope.
"She says he doesn't live here anymore," Huston said. "It goes this way a lot."
At least a hundred times a week, the process server for Subpoena Service Plus parks outside a house or taps a car window or maybe even pretends to deliver flowers -- whatever it takes to serve the court papers seeking support for a child.
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A car is in the driveway, but that might not mean much.
Penny Huston knocks on the door and hopes that the person who answers matches the name on the court document in her hand.
Nope.
"She says he doesn't live here anymore," Huston said. "It goes this way a lot."
At least a hundred times a week, the process server for Subpoena Service Plus parks outside a house or taps a car window or maybe even pretends to deliver flowers -- whatever it takes to serve the court papers seeking support for a child.
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