thousands of e-mails and countless private information of people who are not prominent public citizens. they were people who -- two donors and a mid-level staffer who worked in the finance part of the dnc, who had medical records, financial information, sexual orientation, social security numbers all revealed to the world through thousands of e-mails. and they brought a very serious suit brought by some very serious and able lawyers, first arguing that under the district of columbia's law, this public revelation of private information, information that serves no legitimate public purpose, is a compensable tort under d.c. law and, secondly, under the federal reconstruction era statutes, section 1985, designed to prevent intimidation of voters or participants in the political process. this wound up punishing people