The lawsuit filed against Google by a Pennsylvania couple was reinstated by an appeals court, but their demands for $25,000 in damages plus punitive damages are unlikely to be heard and their claims of mental anguish and invasion of privacy were thrown out. Aaron and Christine Boring sued Google after discovering their home had been more »

It has been a while since we first heard about states requiring eBay sellers to get an auctioneers license. In this case Pennsylvania was one of them and it seems they were very serious, they are in fact now suing a woman who decided to sell on eBay.

Mary Jo Pletz originally decided to use eBay as a way to earn an income and also be able to stay home with her daughter who had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Mary Jo cooperated and immediately closed shop when she was notified in December 2006 that was she was doing was illegal. She went back to an out-of-the house job that required her daughter to go to day care.