RENO, Nev. — A personal privateinvestigator who utilized GPS gadgets to covertly track the cars of Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve and a county commissioner ahead of the 2002 election asked the Nevada Supreme Court late Friday to reverse a judge’s order that he recognize the customer who workedwith him.
Schieve submitted fit in December lookingfor damages from personal investigator David McNeely for a infraction of her personalprivacy after a mechanic signaled her to the private GPS tracking gadget.
Sparks authorities identified it was bought by McNeely and ex-Washoe County Commissioner Vaughn Hartung signedupwith the fit in February under comparable situations.
Lawyers for McNeely stated in Friday’s appeal to the state’s high court that disclosing the name of a customer who paid him to spy on the politicalleaders would break the long-accepted and anticipated privacy of a “private investigator-client relationship.”
The lawyers stated Washoe District Judge David Hardy had mistakenly turneddown McNeely’s argument earlier this month that the customer’s name was a “trade secret” safeguarded under Nevada law. They compared the stealth nature of the relationship to the “secret sauce” in a treasured dish.
“Clients of personal privateinvestigators anticipate privacy,” lawyer Ryan Gormley composed in a 31-page appeal submitted Friday.
“Without that privacy, the company will stopworking. Thus, the defense of customer identity creat