Lord Justice Gross and Mr Justice Irwin dismissed Mr Catt's claim at a hearing in May 2012, ruling that his right to privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights had not been infringed.

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At Wednesday's hearing, Tripp attorneys Joseph Murtha and David Irwin managed to get the women to concede that their testimony about what Tripp said may have been influenced by news media accounts of the Starr investigation and the impeachment proceedings before Congress.

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