Supreme Court may hear appeal on workers’ text message privacy

The US Supreme Court has granted certiorari in City of Ontario v. Quon (08-1332)

LA Times carried this earlier report: “The Supreme Court is expected to decide as early as today whether to hear an appeal of a case in which employees won a constitutional right to privacy in their text messages, even when the messages were sexually explicit comments to co-workers.”

SCOTUS Blog summarized the issue and links to filings in the case and the lower court opinion.

Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy: Supreme Court Grants Cert on Fourth Amendment Protection in Text Messages