VanWickle v. Steamer Belle Gates

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reasoning that, although a sender of an e-mail enjoys a reasonable expectation of privacy, “once the transmissions are received by another person, the transmitter no longer controls its destiny”
• as with postal letters, once an email message “is received and opened,” its “destiny ... lies in the control of the recipient ..., not the sender, absent some legal privilege.”
• warrant executed at site of interstate Internet service provider

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).