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SCOTUS Asked To Decide: Who Owns A Dead Man’s Emails?

Posted on February 12, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Ray Schultz reports:

Yahoo has brought a delicate question to the U.S. Supreme Court: who should have access to a departed person’s emails?

The company has asked the court to overthrow a Massachusetts court decision stating that the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) does not prevent Yahoo from releasing a deceased man’s email account to his relatives, as Yahoo had claimed.

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