Crime & Safety
Ex-Student Drops ‘Spycam’ Case Against Lower Merion Schools
The Robbins family feuded with their lawyer and said they plan no further action against the district.
Former Lower Merion School District student Paige Robbins on Wednesday morning withdrew her lawsuit that alleged a district laptop’s camera took photos of her undressed without her knowledge.
Robbins and her parents said after a hearing at U.S. District Court in Philadelphia they plan no further legal action against the district. Their son, Blake, won a $175,000 settlement in 2010 after he was photographed by his school laptop at home.
“I just wanted to make sure there were no (laptop) pictures of me that would ever be seen again,” Paige Robbins, 19, said.
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“This is the end of it,” said Holly Robbins, her mother. “We were never doing this for the money. We wanted to find out if there were any pictures still being held by the school district.”
U.S. District Court Judge John Padova granted Robbins’ request at a hearing originally called to discuss Robbins attorney , citing irreconcilable differences.
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