By reader acclaim, to quote Michael Krauss at PoL: “a disbarred Manhattan lawyer, who has been convicted of statutory rape, has sued the American Express Co. for giving police credit card information that he says led to his capture in Canada, where he had fled to avoid prosecution. 44-year old James Colliton objects that American Express violated its agreement to withhold customer information from third parties. We haven’t seen his contract with Amex, but doubt that it obliges the company to resist requests from law enforcement.” Any readers able to shed light on this question? More: NY Post, NY Daily News.
More: Discussion continues at Scott Greenfield’s.
I’m sure his suit just does wonders for the perception of the legal profession. What a chump!
This guy isn’t a chump, he’s an idiot. Anyone who has ever watch more than two cop shows on TV know the first thing the cops do is look for a trail of credit card receipts. And Surprise, Surprise; real cops do it as well.
If he is trying to say AMEX and other financial institutions’ privacy policies would prevent this kind of sharing, he needs to go to the exceptions list in Graham-Leach-Bliley Act where responding to government subpoenas is an exception to the privacy rule no one can waive. Another frivolous, blame the lender, lawsuit. Welcome back to America!