Hunton & Williams LLP writes: On November 3, 2009, the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf (OLG Düsseldorf, Az. I-20 U 137/09) ruled on the duty to verify consent for email marketing with respect to purchased email addresses. According to the Court, a company that purchases email addresses for marketing purposes must verify customer consent itself…
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Fired for Refusing To Let Bosses Use Son’s Social Security Number, Waitress Says
Barbara Leonard reports: A waitress says her managers fired her because she refused to take a bribe to let an undocumented kitchen worker use her son’s Social Security number. Sheila Everly sued Legal Sea Foods in Westchester County Court. Everly says that after she rejected bribes and threats from the Boston-based chain’s managers, she complained…
The Turducken Approach to Privacy Law
Adam Liptak writes about a privacy law case that may be better known to you for its culinary reference in a dissenting opinion, perhaps, then the substantive issues. But stay with the story, because it does get to the legal issues… In June, the metaphor of the turducken made its first appearance in American jurisprudence….
Texas school sued over cellphone search
It’s deja vu all over again. Cameron Langford of Courthouse News reports on yet another lawsuit involving the search and seizure of a student’s cellphone: A school district violated an eighth-grade girl’s civil rights and its own policies when it seized a cell phone from her, searched it, and punished her after finding “inappropriate” pictures…