John Wesley Hall notes another search incident to arrest ruling, this one out of Tennessee: Looking at defendant’s cell phone text messages was permitted by the search incident doctrine. United States v. Grooms, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10824 (E.D. Tenn. January 3, 2011) John’s commentary: [Note: This case follows, without out saying so, the rationale…
Category: Court
Facebook user had standing to challenge subpoena seeking his profile information
Evan Brown writes: Mancuso v. Florida Metropolitan University, Inc., 2011 WL 310726 (S.D. Fla. January 28, 2011 ) Plaintiff sued his former employer seeking back overtime wages. In preparing its defense of the case, the employer sent supboenas to Facebook and Myspace seeking information about plaintiff’s use of those platforms. […] Plaintiff moved to quash…
Illinois Attorney General sues marketing firm for selling fraudulent customer lists
Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois marketing firm alleging it sold to businesses “lead lists” of potential customers that it fraudulently claimed were verified and screened. Madigan’s lawsuit, filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court, charges that Ronnie Henderson, of Granite City, and Paula Caveny, of Edwardsville, and their business,…
Court Dismisses Class Action Against Spokeo for Lack of Standing — Robins v. Spokeo
Venkat Balasubramani writes: Robins v. Spokeo, 10-cv-05306 (C.D. Cal. Jan. 27, 2011) Spokeo is a website that bills itself as an aggregator of hard-to-find information about people. Robins filed a complaint against Spokeo for violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, arguing that the “reports generated by Spokeo.com contain inaccurate consumer information that is marketed…