The Supreme Court has issued its opinion in City of Ontario v. Quon (previous coverage here). The opinion was written by Justice Kennedy. Erin Miller of SCOTUSblog writes that the court held that the search of the police officer’s text messages to his colleagues and to a woman with whom he was having an affair…
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Oral arguments in City of Ontario v. Quon today (updated)
Although Mark Sherman of the Associated Press reports that it sounds like the Supreme Court justices will find for the employer in this important workplace text-message privacy case, Orin Kerr had a somewhat different take on how oral argument went: […] Justice Breyer focused on the reasonableness of the search (Step 2 of the O’Connor…
City of Ontario v. Quon: The Rights of Other Parties to the Communication
Dan Solove has some additional comments on Ontario v. Quon, in response to comments by Orin Kerr: I blogged about City of Ontario v. Quon a few days ago, and I want to raise another important issue in the case, one my colleague Orin Kerr has astutely pointed out. The case is on appeal to…
Thoughts on City of Ontario v. Quon: The Fourth Amendment and Privacy of Electronic Communications in the Workplace
Dan Solove shares his thoughts on why the Supreme Court should affirm Quon, here. Previous coverage of this important workplace privacy case can be found here.
Some Thoughts on the Reply Brief in City of Ontario v. Quon
Orin Kerr writes: The Reply Brief in the Court’s only major Fourth Amendment case this term, the text-messaging case City of Ontario v. Quon, has now been filed and is available here. Here are a few thoughts on it. (1) The parties focus significant attention on the Stored Communications Act, somewhat to my surprise. The Stored…
Communicating With Those Who Have No Privacy Rights: The Hard Question in City of Ontario v. Quon
Orin Kerr writes: On Monday, April 19, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in this Term’s only significant Fourth Amendment case, City of Ontario v. Quon. Quon considers whether a city violated the Fourth Amendment by obtaining copies of stored text messages sent over a city-provided text pager used by a city employee. In…