The man, a former health care worker, was convicted in July on two charges stemming from the privacy breach and his attempts ...

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a 1981 Reagan appointee who retired in 2006 and died last December, exemplified the phenomenon.

The former White House chief of staff, 65, had battled in court for months to move his case from the state to federal level, where he could attempt to make immunity claims in the Fulton County ...