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Wednesday 30 March 2022
Accused stalker of Apple CEO Tim Cook agrees to stay away

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE destined for our lives."
AP Technology Writer Apple took legal action af-
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A ter Choi told him last Sep-
woman accused of harass- tember that she intended
ing Apple CEO Tim Cook to apply to become his
with pleas for sex and other "roommate" at his condo-
crude suggestions before minium located in Palo
showing up at his Silicon Alto, California — not far
Valley home in a threaten- from Apple's headquarters
ing manner last October in Cupertino, California.
agreed to stay way from In October, Choi showed
him for the next three years up outside Cook's home
under an agreement ap- on two separate actions
proved Tuesday. and warned she "could get
Julie Lee Choi consented violent," according to court
to the deal negotiated with documents.
Apple during a appear- Then, in December, Choi
ance in Santa Clara Coun- told Cook she would for-
ty Superior Court. Cook, give him for $500 million in
Apple's CEO for the past cash.
decade, wasn't present at A few weeks after that,
the proceeding held in San Apple sought its tempo-
Jose, California. rary restraining order in a
Choi, 45, declined to com- Julie Lee Choi waves off reporters outside Santa Clara Superior Court in San Jose, Calif., on Tues- request that contended
ment after the hearing day, March 29, 2022. Choi "may be armed" and
while angrily waving off two Associated Press "intends to return to Apple's
reporters taking her picture CEO residence or locate
outside the courthouse. An Twitter accounts or emails. she insisted he had made as the headquarters. him otherwise in the near
Apple lawyer also declined If she violates the terms, her buy, according to evi- "I can't live like this any- future." Choi had been liv-
to discuss the stipulation. Choi could face criminal dence that Apple submit- more," Choi wrote in one ing in McLean, Virginia be-
The agreement requires charges and potentially im- ted to obtain a temporary email to Cook sent from fore she began shadowing
Choi to refrain from coming prisoned. restraining order against an iPhone. "I want sex with Cook in Silicon Valley.
within 200 yards of Cook The bizarre case traces her in January. Those docu- you, please, please." Apple paid more than
during the next three years, back to late 2020 when ments also revealed Choi Cook has publicly said he is $630,000 for security mea-
and prohibits her from at- Choi began emailing Cook had set up a series of bogus a gay man, but even after sures designed to protect
tempting to communicate begging him to have sex companies trying to con- Choi acknowledges know- Cook last year, according
with him through any elec- with her and attaching nect her to Cook, some- ing that, her entreaties to a required company dis-
tronic means, including on images of handguns that times listing an Apple office him continued. "Tim, we are closure to shareholders.q

Oregon ends residency rule for medically assisted suicide

use the settlement to press ble; that it is extremely diffi- are in religiously affiliated
the eight other states and cult for terminally ill people health care facilities that
Washington, D.C., with to make extended trips prohibit it. Requiring his pa-
medically assisted suicide to another state; and that tients to find other doctors
laws to drop their residency many people want to die in to provide assistance in
requirements as well. the presence of loved ones ending their own lives can
"This requirement was both near home — not across compound their suffering,
discriminatory and pro- the country. Gideonse said.
foundly unfair to dying "There's no tourism going "Any restriction on medical
patients at the most criti- on," Diaz said. aid in dying that doesn't
cal time of their life," said Compassion & Choices serve a specific medical
Kevin Diaz, an attorney sued on behalf of Dr. Nich- purpose is difficult," Gide-
with Compassion & Choic- olas Gideonse, a Portland onse said Monday. "In no
es, the national advocacy family practice physician other way is my practice
group that sued over Or- and associate professor of restricted to Oregon resi-
egon's requirement. family medicine at Oregon dents, whether that's deliv-
This Jan. 11, 2018, file photo, shows the state Capitol in Salem, Laura Echevarria, a spokes- Health and Science Univer- ering babies in the past or
Ore. woman for National Right sity. A longtime supporter other care that I provide."
Associated Press to Life, which opposes such of medical aid-in-dying The lawsuit argued that the
laws, warned that without laws, Gideonse had been residency requirement vio-
By GENE JOHNSON In a settlement filed in U.S. a residency requirement, unable to write terminal lated the U.S. Constitution's
Associated Press District Court in Portland Oregon risked becoming prescriptions for patients Commerce Clause, which
Oregon will no longer re- on Monday, the Oregon the nation's "assisted sui- who live just across the Co- gives Congress the right to
quire people to be resi- Health Authority and the cide tourism capital." lumbia River in Washington regulate interstate com-
dents of the state to use Oregon Medical Board But Diaz said that was un- state. merce, and the Privileges
its law allowing terminally agreed to stop enforcing likely, given safeguards While Washington has such and Immunities Clause,
ill people to receive lethal the residency requirement in the law, such as the re- a law, providers can be dif- which forbids states from
medication, after a lawsuit and to ask the Legislature quirement that physicians ficult to find in the south- discriminating against citi-
challenged the require- to remove it from the law. determine whether pa- western part of the state, zens from other states in fa-
ment as unconstitutional. Advocates said they would tients are mentally capa- where many hospital beds vor of its own citizens.q