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faskew
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Psychic loses big court case Jun 14, 2013 12:47:39 GMT -5

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Post by faskew on Jun 14, 2013 12:47:39 GMT -5

If only the others were treated the same. LOL. BTW, the news bit says that psychics "often" work with police, but in fact virtually no police dept in the US use psychics. Their information has not proved of value in the past, so they are ignored as a waste of resources.

www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/05/09/tsr-pkg-moos-psychic-dead-wrong.cnn.h

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Psychic loses big court case Jun 14, 2013 13:55:34 GMT -5

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Post by raybar on Jun 14, 2013 13:55:34 GMT -5

Fred's link did not work for me. Here are some others:

earlystart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/14/psychic-faces-seven-figure-judgment-after-911-call-led-to-media-frenzy-pamela-brown-reports/?iref=storysearch

earlystart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/14/judge-orders-psychic-to-pay-6-8-million-in-settlement-after-false-claims/?iref=storysearch

It's about time someone was held to accout for this.. The last big case I can recall offhand was Uri Geller v James Randi, in which Geller unsuccessfully sued Randi. And there was a case in Los Angeles a few years back where a psychic was fined (I think) for selling magic candles for some exorbitant price.

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Psychic loses big court case Jun 14, 2013 19:05:04 GMT -5

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Jun 14, 2013 12:47:39 GMT -5 faskew said:

If only the others were treated the same. LOL. BTW, the news bit says that psychics "often" work with police, but in fact virtually no police dept in the US use psychics. Their information has not proved of value in the past, so they are ignored as a waste of resources.

www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/05/09/tsr-pkg-moos-psychic-dead-wrong.cnn.h

I know this is about Sylvia Browne and Amanda Berry, but where is the court case?

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Psychic loses big court case Jun 15, 2013 6:26:13 GMT -5

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Post by faskew on Jun 15, 2013 6:26:13 GMT -5

Do you mean, "Why doesn't someone sue Sylvia Brown?"

And in a related example, if I remember the details right, she was publicly embarrassed a couple of years ago when she was on live TV and said that everyone in a mine cave in (or some such) was dead (or alive - I don't remember) and minutes later they interrupted the show to report the opposite of what she said.

I don't know if she really believes that she has powers, but she needs to be exposed in any case.

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Psychic loses big court case Jun 15, 2013 10:48:42 GMT -5

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Post by raybar on Jun 15, 2013 10:48:42 GMT -5

A couple more links ---

Comments by Jonathan Turley ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Turley ). Among his comments he notes that the original charges against the County were dismissed. If the psychic is liable to the tune of $6.8 million for starting the incident, why is the county (police, etc.) not liable for conducting it?

jonathanturley.org/2013/06/14/texas-court-hits-psychic-with-6-8-million-defamation-verdict-linked-to-false-police-report/

Two nearly identicle newspaper articles. A web search will find many others. Is it possible that news outlets just copy each other, passing along information without verifying accuracy?

www.yourhoustonnews.com/lake_houston/news/mass-grave-psychic-ordered-to-pay-million-to-former-liberty/article_6be4b136-09d5-559d-8dbd-77b9e145770a.html

www.yourhoustonnews.com/cleveland/news/mass-grave-psychic-ordered-to-pay-million-to-former-liberty/article_63e1fea7-63c2-5c4d-8115-9d35e80e9127.html

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Psychic loses big court case Jun 15, 2013 12:14:46 GMT -5

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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2013 12:14:46 GMT -5

Jun 15, 2013 6:26:13 GMT -5 faskew said:

Do you mean, "Why doesn't someone sue Sylvia Brown?"

No, I'm referring to the title you gave this thread with the Sylvia Browne link. I fully expected to learn someone had sued her, and after searching for quite a while, I didn't find that. I've been duped!

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