Jul 03 2012
Just this morning, a client asked me a question: Can his potential adversary use deleted, private Facebook messages between them as evidence in the breach of contract case he was thinking about bringing in court? (Of course if the adversary had not also deleted them, he could just introduce them that way, but the client …
Jan 23 2012
Today the Supreme Court in United States v. Jones decided that the District of Columbia’s Police Department’s attachment of GPS device to a suspected drug dealer’s car without a proper warrant violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable search and seizures. In overturning the conviction of Antoine Jones, who had received a life sentence for …
Jun 21 2010
We all do it. We send personal messages via text and email from our work computers, cell phones, blackberries, etc. Like the “personal phone call” employers usually don’t mind except when the privilege gets abused. But unlike the personal phone call, the email or text does not go away. It stays forever lodged on your …