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January 2011
Access to Personal E-mails Enough for Statutory Damages under Federal Stored Communications Act . . . Even With No Actual Damages
By Joseph J. Lazzarotti on
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The Federal district court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that an employee can recover statutory damages under the Stored Communications Act for an employer’s improper access to the employee’s personal email account even in the absence of actual damages to the employee.
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More Sanctions for Improper Electronic Filing of Court Documents
By Jackson Lewis P.C. on
Posted in Data Security
With some harsh words of warning, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has sanctioned another law firm for electronic filing of documents disclosing birth dates, names of minors, financial account numbers and at least one social security number in violation of Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2(a).
In a decision issued on…