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I don't ever remember being solicited by Dr. Abe. I found his posts to be helpful, also posts of others on his Ask the Dr. List. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Cottingham" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:23 PM Subject: Abe vs Goliath in Florida court: Goliath wins > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn