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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">The Massachusetts supreme
court recently held (10/16/17) that the federal Stored
Communications Act does not prohibit Yahoo from granting a PR
access to the decedent's email account. The court held: "we
conclude that the personal representatives may provide lawful
consent on the decedent's behalf to the release of the contents of
the Yahoo email account. ... This does not, however, require Yahoo
to divulge the contents of the decedent's communications to the
personal representatives. We conclude only that the SCA does not
stand in the way of Yahoo doing so ...." The court remanded for
the trial court to determine if the Yahoo terms of service allows
it to deny the PR's access.<br>
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The slip opinion can be downloaded here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/2017/sjc-12237.html">https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/2017/sjc-12237.html</a><br>
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Doug Schafer, in Tacoma.<br>
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