Dr. Sunil Garg to speak at the New Jersey Environmental Law Section annual meeting

Dr. Sunil Garg will speak on the implications of the Stengart case in a panel entitled “Electronic Media: Is Your Privilege Protected After “Loving Care?” at the New Jersey Environmental Law Section annual meeting held on June 27, 2010.  In the Stengart case, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that an employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails between the employee and her attorney.  For more information about this case, visit The Rajan Report to read the full article.

New Jersey High Court Protects Employees’ Right to Personal Emails

By Natarajan LLP

New Jersey employers: employees have a limited right to access and send personal emails to their attorney on company computers, and you have no authority to read them. This watershed rule was announced in Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc.,1 where the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that an employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails between the employee and her attorney which were sent and received through a web-based email account accessed on laptop provided by her employer.