0 comments 19 May 2010

The SCOTUS case that has come close to driving me mad.

Court Docs:

 
City of Ontario, CA v Jeff Quon SCOTUS Oral Arguments
Quon v. ARCH WIRELESS OPERATING CO., INC. 9th Circuit Opinion

Readings:

 
The Information Management Journal
September/October 2008
Bosses Can’t Read Employees’ Messages,Court Says

Michigan Law Review
Volume 102:801

The Fourth Amendment and New Technologies: Constitutional Myths and The Case For Caution
Orin S. Kerr

Yale Law School
Civil Liberties Online Fall 2008

Clinical Reading Group on Electronic Communications Privacy

ASAP: Littler Mendelson
July 2008

Employee Text Messages Are Not Inviolate: Understanding and Navigating the Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Company

Berkeley Technology Law Journal
Volume 24:719

Quon v. ARCH WIRELESS OPERATING CO. 554 F.3d 769 (9th Cir. 2009)

Over the last month or so, I’ve lost my dreamy-eyed wonder over this case. That is until I had to hash out the particulars of certain relationships between the people involved (Quon et al). I’m not in love with writing about how “this guy is that guy’s mistresses’ husband,” and “torrid love affairs conducted with grammatically challenged, English language deprived text messages,” but it does serve to spice it up a bit.

Hopefully, I can get this 40 page beast of a project done by my summer deadline. If not, at least I have 40 pages on a useless-to-anyone-but-me subject. Hooray.