Legal Opinion
Vista Marketing, LLC v. Terri A. Burkett
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 4, 2016No. 14-14068PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROSENBAUM, Circuit Judge:
The Founders of our country had great faith in the jury system. See U.S. Const, amend. VII. So did the Congress that enacted the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2712 (the “SCA” or “Act”), choosing to leave the award of damages under the Act’s civil provisions almost entirely to the jury.
In this SCA case, the jury concluded that Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Terri Burkett violated the Act when, in accordance with her lawyer’s advice, she viewed her ex-husband Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Franklin Burkett’s emails in an effort to prove to the…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Doe v. ChaoSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- United States v. William O. Steele, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
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