Labor/Employment
Jun. 22, 2010
Text Message Search Did Not Violate Employee's Privacy Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that an employer’s text message search of an employee’s pager does not violate the Fourth Amendment, says Veronica Gray of Nossaman.
Reversing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Ontario Police Department did not violate Jeff Quon's expectations of privacy when it reviewed the contents of his employer issued pager. City of Ontario v. Quon, No. 08-1332, (June 17, 2010).
Notably, the Supreme Court was concerned with using the facts of this case "to establish far-reaching premises that d...
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