· 4/15/1847
Milliken v. Southgate
Citations
- 26 Me. 424
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the defendant had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the text messages and other information contained in his phone, notwithstanding the fact that the information was disclosed to a third-party cell service provider
- noting that “society’s continued expectation of privacy in communications made by letter or phone call demonstrates its willingness to recognize a legitimate expectation of privacy in the contents of text messages”
- noting that \society's continued expectation of privacy in communications made by letter or phone call demonstrates its willingness to recognize a legitimate expectation of privacy in the contents of text messages\
- cell phone subscriber has reasonable expectation of privacy in content of text messages
- \The rationale used by the Warshak court in establishing individuals' reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of their email is equally applicable to cell phone users' expectations of privacy in the contents of their test messages.\
- analogizing text messages to email
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Judges: Whitman
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