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Supreme Court first ducks, then addresses, issue of employees' expectation of privacy in workplace communications

• Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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• USA
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• June 19 2010

The U.S. Supreme Court held, in City of Ontario v. Quon, that a government employer's examination of an employee's pager messages did not violate the Fourth Amendment because it was justified by a "legitimate work-related rationale" and was "not excessively intrusive."