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High Court to Review Privacy Rights - Panel will rule in repressed memory case in which a UC Irvine scholar revealed information about the subject of a study. By Maura Dolan, L A Times Staff Writer San Francisco "Stepping into the debate over repressed memory, the California Supreme Court decided Wednesday to review whether a famed memory scholar can be found liable for defaming and invading the privacy of the subject of a psychological case study. The court voted without dissent in a closed session to accept an appeal by UC Irvine psychology professor Elizabeth F. Loftus, who was sued after publishing what she called an "expose" of a case study in which a 17-year-old purportedly recalled a memory of her mother sexually molesting her 11 years earlier. Two lower courts had ruled that the lawsuit could go to trial....Loftus said Wednesday that she was "extremely gratified" that the court had decided to review the case. "I also am exceedingly grateful to the scientists, clinical researchers and scholars who wrote to the court … and joined me in my concerns about a frivolous lawsuit that carries the potential to stifle the free exchange of information," Loftus said. But Joyanna Silberg, executive vice president of the Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence, said Loftus behaved unethically in probing the life of the woman identified in the study as "Jane Doe." "Science is in jeopardy if the public is not protected by ethics and standards," said Silberg, a clinical psychologist who specializes in child abuse. "There is no individual who is above the law, whether they be a very well-respected scientist or the president or a garbage collector." http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-memory23jun23,1,2960655.story
What Psychologists Better Know About Recovered Memories: Research, Lawsuits, and the Pivotal Experiment - Kenneth S. Pope http://kspope.com/memory/lofrev3.php
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/15AACD99-DF1A-4E68-A9A6-DFEECF597F3E.htm
Aljazeera Guantanamo inmate 'abused'
By Roshan Muhammed Salih
Wednesday 22 June 2005, 21:55 Makka Time, 18:55 GMT
An Aljazeera cameraman who has been incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay since 2001 has suffered extreme physical, sexual and religious abuse, his lawyer says.
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