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Local Political Drama: Text Messages, Employee Hard Drives and Wrongful Termination

April 27, 2009 Josh Gilliland e-Discovery, Electronically Stored Information, Email, ESI, Text Messages

Williams v. City of Franklin, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33200 (M.D. Tenn. Apr. 16, 2009) is an ESI free for all. The case is a local political drama that sounds like a Hollywood production. There are threatening text messages from an alderman and then rummaging through an employee’s laptops for[…]

It Takes Two to Tango…and Form a Conspiracy over Text Messages

March 13, 2009 Josh Gilliland Conspiracy, Hearsay, Text Messages

A “conspiracy” is an “agreement by two or more persons to commit an unlawful act.” Black’s Law Dictionary, Pocket Edition, 1996. Like a tango dance, a conspiracy takes a partner. However, the number of people in a conspiracy can quickly make it look like a square dance, with everyone needing to[…]

Production of Text Messages Protocol

February 17, 2009 Josh Gilliland Discovery, Document Review, Form of Production, Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Text Messages, Uncategorized

The sensitivity courts are showing to text messages and public employees’ reasonable expectation of privacy has been very impressive. This sensitivity is evident in cases such as Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co., Inc., which found that a police officer had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his messages, due[…]

Text Messages and Privacy

December 31, 2008 Josh Gilliland e-Discovery, Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Text Messages

Can you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages? This video clip from the CT Summation & Ivize webinar addressed this issue.