The 9th Circuit held (PDF) that the cop did have such an expectation of privacy, and that the search of his messages conducted by the city (with the aid of the wireless company) after Sgt. Quon repeatedly went over his message allowance was
unreasonable as a matter of law.
The court stated that «where a real estate agent — experienced in a specific type of transaction — makes an affirmative representation to the principal regarding that same type of transaction, the principal is not
unreasonable as a matter of law to rely upon that representation.»
Not exact matches
Read this quote about the Supreme Court
of Kansas: «In that way, the Court effectively held
as a
matter of law that it is professional misconduct for a lawyer to «round up» a time entry, and thereby charge the client for more time than the lawyer actually devoted to the particular task, regardless
of whether the dollar amount
of the resulting charge (or the total fee) is reasonable or
unreasonable.»»
Although move out
of state by parent with joint legal custody and primary physical custody is not per se substantial change
of circumstances such
as to make that parent's continuing custody
unreasonable, this does not mean that circumstances inherent in such move are always insufficient
as a
matter of law to warrant modifying child custody.
Presenter, «The
Unreasonable Consumer, or When Can a Court Determine
as a
Matter of Law that a Food Label is Not Misleading?»
The suspended patent
law provisions include those relating to patentable subject
matter, and those providing patent term adjustments to compensate for
unreasonable delays in patent issuance and
unreasonable curtailment
of the effective term
of a pharmaceutical patent
as a result
of the marketing approval process.