We need an 11 year old to explain to the SCOTUS about the "intertubes". lol
Huffington Post:
As we wrote here, the case concerns Sergeant Jeff Quon and three other plaintiffs, including Quon's wife and mistress, who were employed with the Ontario police department. The plaintiffs sued the Chief of police for reading sexually explicit messages that were sent via pagers provided by the department. A lower court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in 2008, and now the defendants have appealed their case, which headed for the Supreme Court.
As the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in the case, it seemed that the justices required clarification on some of the technological details of the case.
LawyersUSA's DC Dicta blog offers up some examples:
The first sign was about midway through the argument, when Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. - who is known to write out his opinions in long hand with pen and paper instead of a computer - asked what the difference was “between email and a pager?”
At one point, Justice Anthony Kennedy asked what would happen if a text message was sent to an officer at the same time he was sending one to someone else.
“Does it say: ‘Your call is important to us, and we will get back to you?’” Kennedy asked.
Justice Antonin Scalia wrangled a bit with the idea of a service provider.
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