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Supreme Court to address employee privacy

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 14 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the Ninth Circuit’s 2008 decision on employee privacy in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co

Supreme Court to review text message privacy case

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 22 2009

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case regarding employees' constitutional privacy rights with respect to text messages sent from an employer-paid mobile or pager device

Ru lkin my txt msgs?

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 20 2010

"What are the legal boundaries of an employee’s privacy in this interconnected, electronic communication age, one in which thoughts and ideas that would have been spoken personally and privately in ages past are now instantly text-messaged to friends and family via hand-held, computer-assisted electronic devices?"

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of government employer in workplace electronic monitoring case

  • Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 6 2010

In June, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in City of Ontario v. Quon, siding with the City and its officials in a workplace electronic monitoring case closely followed by employers and their counsel

Supreme Court sets oral argument in Quon v. Arch Wireless for April 19, 2010

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 22 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court has set oral argument for April 19, 2010, to review the Ninth Circuit’s 2008 decision on employee privacy in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co

Supreme Court to hear argument in employee “sexting” case

  • Franczek Radelet PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2010

On Monday, April 19, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument in City of Ontario v. Quon, a case addressing the right of a public employer to review employee text messages on a pager purchased by the public employer for employee business use

Supreme Court recognizes right of public employers to search electronic communications

  • Fisher & Phillips LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 17 2010

On June 17, 2010 the US Supreme Court unanimously held that a public employer's search of an employee's text messages was reasonable and did not violate the employee's constitutional rights

Supreme Court opines on employee privacy rights in the workplace

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 23 2010

On June 17, 2010, in City of Ontario v Quon, the US Supreme Court held that an employer's review of an employee's text messages, sent via an employer-issued pager, did not violate the employee's Fourth Amendment privacy rights

City’s search of text messages was reasonable despite employee’s expectation of privacy

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 8 2010

The City of Ontario’s Computer Usage, Internet and E-mail Policy provides that use of the city’s computers and other electronic equipment, networks, etc., is limited to city-related business, that access is not confidential and “users should have no expectation of privacy or confidentiality when using these resources.”

Fourth Amendment does not violate police-department's search of employee text messages

  • Roetzel & Andress
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 28 2010

In a previous blog article posted January 8, 2010, Does the Fourth Amendment Protect Text Messages?, we reported that the United States Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari in City of Ontario v Quon, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals case in which the Circuit Court held that Police Sergeant Quon's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when sexually explicit text messages sent to and from his department-owned pager were accessed by the City