Verizon employee in trouble for spoofing state bureaucrat's email [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: Odd little case against Verizon
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 09:36:25 -0500
From: Paul Levy <plevy () citizen org>
To: <declan () well com>

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

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