United States First Circuit

Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, a consent to interception cannot be inferred from the mere purchase of a service on the internet, and defendant's acquisition of information amounted to "interception" of a communication under the statute.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2003
• Published 05/09/2003

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Adam J. Levitt with whom Daniel W. Krasner, David A.P. Brower, Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLC, Seth R. Lesser, Andrew M. Gschwind, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Melvyn I. Weiss, Michael M. Buchman, Dennis Stewart, William J. Doyle II, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, Nancy Freeman Gans, and Moulton & Gans, P.C. were on brief for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Seymour Glanzer with whom Carmela N. Edmunds and Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP were on brief for appellees.