Legal Opinion
Joseph v. Carnes
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 24, 2014No. 13-3110PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
When a business dispute developed among the five shareholders of an Illinois limited liability company, one shareholder allegedly accessed the company email accounts of two of the other shareholders. Based on those emails, three of the shareholders sued the other two shareholders in state court. The two shareholders then turned around and sued the state court plaintiffs in federal court for violations of the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”). 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-12. In the federal action, the two shareholders sought a preliminary injunction related to the emails obtained from their company…
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