7th Circuit Finds Wiretap Act Claim Over Email Forwarding Properly Alleged

Mealey's (December 16, 2016, 2:57 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — Finding errors with a trial court judge’s interpretations of “interception” and “contemporaneous” under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA, or Wiretap Act), a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec.14 reversed the judge’s dismissal of a man’s ECPA claims against his ex-wife related to her surreptitious forwarding of emails related to the couple’s divorce proceedings (Barry Epstein v. Paula Epstein, et al., No. 15-2076, 7th Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 22223)....