
Out of Left Field
January 04, 2011 by David Rudolf
We all use email everyday, much more often than we use the U.S. Mail, faxes or even telephones. And we have all read horror stories about email evidence in civil and criminal cases. But most of us haven’t given a lot of thought to whether the Fourth Amendment protects emails from seizure by the government without a warrant supported by probable cause. The issue, of course, is whether we have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our email exchanges, despite the fact that our internet service providers (ISP’s) can access those emails on their servers. The Sixth Circuit, in its […] More...