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Employment Law

City of Ontario v. Quon: Limited Privacy Rights for Employer-Issued Equipment

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a narrow ruling regarding the privacy rights and expectations of public employees who use government-employer-issued technological equipment. In City of Ontario v. Quon, ___ U.S. ___, 130 S.Ct. 2619 (2010), the Supreme Court held that a police department’s audit of an employee’s text messages did…

Posted:
11/5/2010

Commentaries
Employment Law

The Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reverse the 9th Cir. in Quon v. City of Ontario

As discussed here on LawUpdates.com last year, in Quon v. City of Ontario , the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a City of Ontario SWAT officer named Jeff Quon possessed a privacy right in the personal text messages he sent and received from his city issued communication device.…

Posted:
05/4/2010

Commentaries
Employment Law

Quon v. Arch Wireless: 9th Circuit Recognizes Privacy Expectation in Text Messages

In Quon v. Arch Wireless, 529 F.3d 892 (9th Cir. 2008). the Ninth Circuit partly reversed the District Court and ruled that the Ontario, California Police Department violated the Fourth Amendment rights of one of its officers and three others with whom he exchanged text messages on a department-issued pager…

Posted:
11/14/2008

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Ninth Circuit: Disclosure of an Employee's Private Text Messages to His Employer Unlawful

This case arose from the defendant-appellee Ontario Police Department’s review of text messages sent and received by plaintiff-appellant Jeff Quon, a Sergeant and member of the City of Ontario’s SWAT team. The issue in this case is whether (1) Arch Wireless Operating Company Inc., the company with whom the City…

Date of ruling:
06/18/2008