WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Chicago Sun-Times that sought to block a lawsuit from police officers over the newspaper’s coverage of a case involving the nephew of Chicago’s former mayor.
The justices did not comment in allowing the lawsuit to proceed over whether the newspaper violated the privacy of the officers by publishing identifying information
about them from state driver license records.
The officers contend that publishing the information violates a federal law intended to protect driver license data.
The article used the information to suggest that the police put together a lineup that made it unlikely that the nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley would be selected.
Daley nephew Richard Vanecko eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the 2004 death of David Koschman.
- Posted December 24, 2015
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