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Have You Inherited A Deceased Employee's e-Mail?

Clearly, if an employer possesses the desired e-mails because the employer saved a copy of each e-mail sent to it, or because it owned its employee's computer within which the desired e-mails reside, then it would also own the e-mail. But the more problematic facts include what would happen if the employer didn't possess the desired e-mails.

18 minute read May 26, 2005 at 10:19 AM
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Jonathan Bick
Have You Inherited A Deceased Employee's e-Mail?

Sometimes, situations that entrepreneurs and business executives never thought of ' wouldn't have reason to think of ' pop up.

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