Aitken v. Communications Workers of America

MEMORANDUM OPINION

T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.

This federal question action grows out of defendants’ alleged misappropriation of the identities of certain plaintiffs — twelve managers at Verizon Business Network Services (“Verizon”) — for the purpose of sending pro-union, anti-Verizon emails to Verizon employees under the managers’ names. Defendants Harry Arnold and Pam Tronsor, acting as agents of defendant Communications Workers of America (“CWA”), allegedly created Yahoo email addresses using the names of nineteen Verizon managers, including twelve plaintiffs, and then used those email…