11th Circuit affirms Judge Acker's preliminary injunction in Renfroe v. Rigsby "whistleblower" case

The "whistleblower" Rigsby sisters were rebuffed today in their appeal of a December 2006 preliminary injunction by federal district court Judge William Acker, who had ordered them to return thousands of pages of claims files they took from a E.A. Renfroe, a State Farm contractor. The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Acker's injunction in an opinion that, as these things go, was bluntly worded in places. Most judicial opinions are not blunt and judges are usually quite gentle in saying why they prefer one argument over another -- however, they do not like their time to be wasted. So when judges openly label an argument "illogical," as happened in this opinion, they really didn't think much of it at all. Read a pdf of the opinion, and