Bowden v. Kirkland & Ellis LLP

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JEFFREY COLE, United States Magistrate Judge.

It is the plaintiffs’ theory in their claims under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”) that Kirkland & Ellis intercepted and recorded their private telephone calls made on their cellular telephones without their knowledge or consent. Kirkland & Ellis has adamantly denied the charges. In an attempt to prove the ECPA claims, the plaintiffs issued a number of subpoenas to third party telephone service providers in 2007. Kirkland & Ellis, beginning in April 2007, moved to quash the subpoenas on the *543grounds of…