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Jury finds employer accessed "private" MySpace.com group page in violation of the Federal Stored Communications Act

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 9 2009

In Pietrylo v. Hillstone Restaurant Group, a server at a Houston's restaurant in New Jersey created a MySpace.com group whose purpose was to let current and former employees "vent" about their experience while working at the restaurant

Company violated federal law by accessing employee’s invitation-only MySpace chat group without authorization

  • Ogletree Deakins
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 13 2009

In an unpublished opinion, a federal district court in New Jersey has upheld a jury verdict in which a company was found liable for violating the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA

Week in review

  • Gray Plant Mooty
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

This week, states across the country were determined to start off the new year with their best foot forward. High on their lists of priorities? Protecting

NLRB rules employer’s termination of non-union employees for Facebook posts violated NLRA

  • Littler Mendelson
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 27 2012

In another decision that affects non-union as well as union employers, the National Labor Relations Board recently ruled that comments posted on Facebook

Suit against Philadelphia police highlights importance of paying attention to employee internet access

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 22 2009

CNN.com is reporting that a group of Philadelphia policemen and women have filed a class action lawsuit in federal court against the Philiadelphia police department for race discrimination on the ground that the department allegedly permitted its white officers, including some of supervisory rank, to maintain a private website that allegedly was used as a forum for racially offensive comments

Cintas Corp. v. Unite Here

  • Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 16 2009

The Southern District of New York dismissed plaintiff’s trademark infringement, unfair competition, dilution, and cybersquatting claims, finding that defendant labor union’s use of plaintiff’s mark in domain names for a criticism website was not actionable

Remember that post you wrote about me on MySpace? You're fired

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2009

Employee gossip about workplace supervisors is as ancient as chatter around the water cooler

Social media sites: a useful tool for exposing violent employees?

  • Epstein Becker Green
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 25 2010

Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become fertile grounds, unfortunately, for expressions of hatred and intentions to commit acts of severe violence

Social networking in the workplace and beyond

  • Lathrop & Gage LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 25 2010

It's no secret that employees are facebooking, tweeting, and blogging more than ever before

You’re not paranoid if someone really is watching you: monitoring employee use of social media

  • Vedder Price PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 6 2010

The use of social media is a rapidly evolving fact of life in today's workplace that is changing the ways people communicate with each other, providing new ways to spend (and waste) time and new avenues for employees to get themselvesand their employersinto trouble

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