United States Second Circuit

While a public employee may have a privacy right in the contents of office computer, an anonymous tip that the employee used the computer for non-business use justified search of computer.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/19/2001
• Decided 09/26/2001
• Published 10/03/2001

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge:, Before: LEVAL, SACK, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian J. O'Donnell,Rowley, Forrest, O'Donnell & Beaumont, P.C., Albany, NY, (Jessica R. Wilcox on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie M. Sheridan, Assistant Solicitor General (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General of the State of New York, Daniel Smirlock, Deputy Solicitor General, Peter H. Schiff, Senior Counsel), for defendants-appellees.