Court looks at lawsuit by mom of slain news anchor
By The Associated Press
This article was published September 13, 2012 at 7:05 a.m.
PHOTO BY KAREN E. SEGRAVE
From left: Larry Jegley, Pulaski County prosecutor; Patti Cannady, Anne Pressly's mother; and Guy Cannady, Pressly's step-father address the media after the sentencing hearing for Curtis Lavelle Vance on Thursday evening, Nov. 12, 2009.
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Anne Pressly
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas’ highest court is considering whether to allow the mother of a slain Little Rock news anchor to proceed with her lawsuit against a hospital and three workers who illegally looked at her dead daughter’s medical files.
Justices on Thursday were scheduled to hear Patricia Cannady’s appeal of a Pulaski County judge’s decision to dismiss her lawsuit.
Circuit Court Judge Leon Johnson ruled last year that the law doesn’t allow privacy claims to proceed after the death of the individual affected.
Cannady sued St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center after a doctor and former employees pleaded guilty to illegally looking at her daughter Anne Pressly’s medical records when Pressly was hospitalized after being found beaten inside her home.
Curtis Vance was convicted of capital murder in Pressly’s 2008 death.
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TheBatt says... September 13, 2012 at 8:34 a.m.
Not only does the law throw out any suit once a person who's privacy has been violated is deceased (which should be enough to stop this case in its tracks), but the victim's mom who has filed suit would have to prove that SHE had some kind of measurable loss. Other than anger (better aimed at the murderer), she had nothing recoverable.
Those who illegally looked at Pressly's file have been convicted of breaking the law and have been sentenced for that.
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GottaMakeIt says... September 13, 2012 at 8:50 a.m.
Four years is a long time to hold on. I know it's hard in circumstances such as this, but there comes a time when you have to let go and accept that nothing can change what has happened. The pain will never go away, but it will lessen with time.
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LIVEFROMLONOKE says... September 13, 2012 at 9:43 a.m.
I am so sick of people who seek gain from others for their own selfish desires. Come on people, the only benefit at all for this case is money. Ann was a wonderful person and I hate to see a cloud like this hanging over the memory of her life.
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NONSHEEPLE says... September 13, 2012 at 2:32 p.m.
It's obvious the only motivation in this is a payout... She's turning out to be no better than the "Jackson 5 Family" Shame...
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harley1305121514 says... September 13, 2012 at 4:12 p.m.
Never underestimate the desires of money from another ambulance chaser! I sure the chaser is pushing the family to keep trying!!!
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LevyRat says... September 13, 2012 at 5:14 p.m.
Money makes people do strange things......... this is really sad, both the death and the money grubbing mother.
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NoUserName says... September 13, 2012 at 5:50 p.m.
No possibility they are just really pissed and upset and doing the only thing they can?
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