California Court of Appeal

Mass emailing to a company's employees against company's express wishes and by deliberately evading company's counter-measures may constitute a trespass to chattels, and imposing liability does not violate the 1st Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/10/2001
• Published 12/11/2001

Judges

• MORRISON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Philip H. Weber, Placerville, for Defendant and Appellant., Ann Brick for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California;  Christopher A. Hansen for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York;  and Deborah Pierce for Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amici Curiae for Defendant and Appellant., Morrison & Foerster, Linda E. Shostak, Michael A. Jacobs, San Francisco, and Kurt E. Springmann, San Diego, for Plaintiff and Respondent.