Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case Over Privacy Of Decedent’s Email Account

Mealey's (March 26, 2018, 12:05 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 26 denial of certiorari, a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that granted a deceased man’s siblings access to his Yahoo email account under the “lawful consent” exception to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) will stand, with the high court declining to consider arguments over user consent and privacy (Oath Holdings Inc. v. Marianne Ajemian, et al., No. 17-1005, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. LEXIS 1936)....