I wish to find out if a person in the mid-1980's in Texas (most likely
in the Houston area) was awarded a substantial sum of money in a civil
lawsuit. All I know is the person's full name and approximate age. I
know that lawsuits can go on for years and years, so it might have
started in the mid-1980's and taken a while to be decided. I don't
even know for sure if there ever was a civil law suit. I am quite a
distance from Texas and would like to find this out rather quickly.
Obviously (it need not be said, but just to be clear), I would only
want to use squeaky clean, completely ethical and legal means to find
out this information.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
25 Jul 2005 06:50 PDT
The best places to start searching would be online court records and
newspaper records (substantial court awards often receive press
coverage). There is no guarantee of finding anything, but one never
knows until one looks!
What do you want from a Google Answers researcher?
I can steer you towards some resources you can use to conduct your own
searches, but be forewarned -- some of these are difficult to wade
through, and others require subscription access (sometiems available
at no cost through public libraries).
Alternatively, I can do some searching for you and let you know what I
find. To do this, though (1) I would need more information on the
case, especially the names of the parties involved, and the nature of
the lawsuit, and (2) I can look, but my answer may well be something
like "sorry...nothing turned up on this particular case".
This second point is important -- there's no way of knowing in advance
how much (if any) information is available in online records. I'll
certainly put in a good effort, but it's impossible to guarantee what
might turn up.
Let me know what you think,
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
inquiringmind003-ga
on
25 Jul 2005 08:03 PDT
I am receptive towards privately emailing the researcher additional
information which should not be revealed to anyone and most especially
not placed on the internet where the public could see it. If the
researcher is competent, which I gather is a given here at google
answers, then the researcher's "best shot" at finding something based
on the additional information would be okay.
Here is the information I could provide concerning the person who
may have received a cash settlement in a civil lawsuit around the mid
to late 1980's: 1) full name; 2) social security number; 3) exact
birth date; 4) a rough guess as to the monetary amount of the cash
award; 5) a guess as to the nature of the lawsuit.
Similarly, it would be unethical for the result of the search to be
posted publicly, so I would want the researcher's find, if there is
one, to be emailed privately to me rather than published on the
internet where everyone could see it. It would be okay to publish in
the public "answer" the general nature of the answer, but it would be
absolutely not be okay to show the name of the person or any
information of that personal nature.
Please let me know how to proceed.
I am also receptive to paying more, perhaps as a tip, to get a
really thoroughly researched answer.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
25 Jul 2005 08:10 PDT
Thanks for getting back to me.
I don't Google Answers is the right forum for you. All research is
posted right here in this (very public) forum. There is no mechanism
for you and I to communicate privately by email, or any other means.
You may need to hire someone privately to do this research for you. I
can't see how to carry out an essentially private task here at Google
Answers.
Best of luck...
paf
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