The Bush administration asked the Supreme Court last week to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to hold federal agents responsible for driving an upstate New York computer software company out of business when the owner’s husband was mistakenly targeted in a child pornography investigation, according to the Associated Press.
In 2000, customs agents learned about a website that was being used to display child porn. A trace of the credit card used to pay the site’s subscription fee led the agents to Richard Hallock’s home in the village of Mohawk, 70 miles west of Albany, N.Y. What the agents didn't know was that Hallock had been the victim of identity theft only a few months before, his business credit card stolen and used to set up the Website, the report said.
The court is being asked to decide the extent of government immunity and whether Susan and Richard Hallock can sue individual customs agents, according to the story
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