State High Court Takes E-Mail Trespassing Case
Associated Press
The California Supreme Court agreed to review an appeals court decision that said a fired Intel Corp. worker was guilty of trespassing when he inundated the company with critical e-mails.
Five of the seven justices agreed to set aside the lower court’s December ruling in a case testing whether free-speech protections extend to business e-mail systems.
The case concerns former Intel engineer Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi, who inundated the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s computer servers with e-mails after he was fired in 1995. The e-mails went to as many as 30,000 workers.
