-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Odd little case against Verizon Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:36:25 -0500 From: Paul Levy <plevy@private> To: <declan@private> Noted while reading legal advance sheets, hard to know what to make of the case but seems interesting. Faced with repeated complaints from a Verizon customer cc'd to state attorney general's office, one or more Verizon employees spoofed an email from a state bureaucrat telling the customer how pathetic he was for complaining and telling him to get lost. Bureaucrat is questioned by supervisor, cleared of wrongdoing, but sues the spoofing employees for emotional distress, and sues Verizon alleging it is vicariously responsible for its employees' misconduct. Courts hold Verizon not responsible; not clear what happened to the individual employees Booker v. GTE.NET LLC, 350 F3d 515 (6th Cir. 2003) http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=03a0427p.06 , Paul Alan Levy Public Citizen Litigation Group 1600 - 20th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009 (202) 588-1000 http://www.citizen.org/litigation/litigation.html _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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