Petition of the day
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on Feb 6, 2018 at 5:00 pm
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The petition of the day is:
17-1005
Issue: Whether a court-appointed legal representative, such as an estate administrator, should be able to provide lawful consent under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., for the disclosure of private email messages stored in an online email account by a user who died without a will or any other indication of actual consent.