You've got trouble!: Managing e-mail liability

Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 64-71

  Mills, Juline E ^a   Clay, Joan Marie ^b   Mortensen, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b Department of technology and cognition ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0034288219     PISSN: 00108804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001088040004100536     Document Type: Article

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2. 2 For a comprehensive review of sexual-harassment issues, see: David Sherwyn and J. Bruce Tracey, "Sexual Harassment Liability in 1998 - Good News or Bad News for Employers and Employees?," Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 5 (October, 1998), pp. 14-21.
3. 3 United States of America and State of New York et al. v. Microsoft Corporation, Civil Action No. 98-1232 (TPJ) and Civil Action No. 98-1233 (TPJ), United States District Court, District of Columbia. (Findings of Fact, 1998). On September 26, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for direct review and sent the Microsoft case to a federal appeals court, thereby delaying for months or years the final decision on whether Microsoft should be broken up, according to the Associated Press and other news agencies.
4. 4 Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Legislation, 1995 WL 360526 (N.D. Ill. 1995).
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8. 8 Elizabeth Weise, "Electronic Evidence Hot New Tactic," USA Today, May 10, 1999, p. 1A.
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15. 15 Curtis v. DiMaio, No. 98CV5093, WL 224603 (S.D.N.Y., April 23, 1999).
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17. th Cir.) WL 110186 (1998).
18. 18 Sara Ellen Amster, "E-mail, Electronic Information Can Be Double-edged Swords," Gannett News Service, April 23, 1998. See also: "False E-mail," Electronic Evidence Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (March 1997), p. 1.
19. 19 Society for Human Resource Management, "E-mail Becoming a Workplace Norm, but Policies Lag behind," «www.relojournal.com/ E-MAIL.htm», as viewed on June 22, 2000.
20. 20 Bonita P. Bourke, et al. v. Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A., California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, Case No. B068705 (July 26, 1993).
21. 21 Michael A. Smyth v. The Pillsbury Company, 914 F. Supp. 97 (E.D. Pa., 1996).
22. 22 Fryer, p. 73.
23. 23 "Over Half of U.S. Companies Have No Protocol for Protecting Trade Secrets, Most U.S. Companies Unprepared for Digital Information Request in Litigation," Business Wire, May 15, 2000.
24. th 580, *586; 927 LEXIS 6829 (1996).
25. 25 Hard Rock Café International v. Morton and Hard Rock Hotel Inc., United States District Court for the Central District of California, WL 350848 (SDNY, 1999).
26. 26 Frances Lynch, "Why Your Company Needs a Written E-mail Policy," Boulder County Business Report, Vol. 15, No. 6 «http://www.bcbr.com/ jun96/mailcol2.htm», as viewed in June 1996.