The federal jury awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages, $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress.

Then he learned that a federal jury had indicted him.

He was held without bail for 15 months before a federal jury acquitted him of all nine charges against him.

The plaintiffs are seeking a federal jury trial for damages.

In 1998 a federal jury convicted them, among others things, of illegally distributing an ozone generator and of wire fraud.