Case Law Alert: Stored Communications Act Protects Production of Twitter Employees’ Direct Messages
Shenwick v. Twitter, Inc. (N.D. Cal. Feb 7, 2018) provides companies with a precedent to argue that they generally should not have to produce direct communications between employees (such as most text messages) where the employees are not separately named parties in the litigation.Overview:In this securities class action suit, the plaintiffs motioned to compel the defendant, Twitter, to produce direct messages sent within Twitter between their employees.This case stems from charges that Twitter and its former CEO and current executives violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by misleading investors, resulting in artificially... Read More