United States Ninth Circuit

The unambiguous language of sections of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), 18 U.S.C. sections 2702 and 2707, limits liability to providers of electronic communication services that knowingly divulge the contents of those communications while being stored by that provider. The sections do not provide for a private cause of action against those who aid and abet, or conspire with, electronic communications service providers in unlawfully disseminating the contents of electronic communications.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/06/2006
• Decided 08/08/2006
• Published 08/08/2006

Judges

• TROTT, Circuit Judge., Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, STEPHEN S. TROTT, and M. MARGARET McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey Wilens, Lakeshore Law Center, Yorba Linda, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael E. Williams, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.