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CITY OF ONTARIO, CAL. v. QUON

No. 08-1332.

130 S.Ct. 2619 (2010)

560 U.S. 746

CITY OF ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, et al., Petitioners, v. Jeff QUON et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 17, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent L. Richland (argued), Los Angeles, CA, for the petitioners.

Neal K. Katyal, for the U.S. as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting the petitioners.

Dieter Dammeier, Upland, CA, for respondents.

Dimitrios C. Rinos, Rinos & Martin, LLP, Tustin, CA, Kent L. Richland, Kent J. Bullard, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioners.

Dimitrios C. Rinos, Rinos & Martin, LLP, Tustin, CA, Kent L. Richland, Kent J. Bullard, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Petitioners.

Dieter C. Dammeier, Michael A. McGill, Lackie, Dammeier & McGill, Upland, CA, for Respondents, Jerilyn Quon, April Florio, Jeff Quon and Steve Trujillo.

Justice KENNEDY delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case involves the assertion by a government employer of the right, in circumstances to be described, to read text messages sent and received on a pager the employer owned and issued to an employee. The employee contends that the privacy of the messages is protected by the ban on "unreasonable searches and seizures" found in the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, made applicable to the States...

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