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50,000 texts handed over in Maine divorce case
http://gazette.com/50000-texts-handed-over-in-maine-divorce-case/article/feed/8598350,000 texts handed over in Maine divorce case
Associated Press Updated: February 6, 2014 at 9:17 pm • Published: February 6, 2014 •
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine supreme court justice says a cellphone company turned over more than 50,000 text messages in a divorce case in which a protection order was in place.
Justice Donald Alexander criticized U.S. Cellular, saying it violated federal privacy law.
The lawyer for the husband in the case used subpoenas to get the texts from the wife and another man and was suspended for six months.
The judge ordered the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar to alert state and federal prosecutors about U.S. Cellular's practices. He says U.S. Cellular violated the federal Stored Communications Act.