[luau] Intel case tests e-mail as free speech

[Elizabeth Long]

Aug. 14 — When Ken Hamidi was fired from Intel Corp. in 1995

after a long workers’ compensation battle, he didn’t go quietly.

Mr. Hamidi, 55 years old, spent the next two years criticizing

the company in e-mails sent to thousands of co-workers. Convinced

he was a victim of age discrimination, Mr. Hamidi even publicized

his campaign by dressing as a cowboy and going on horseback to

distribute printed versions of his messages to employees entering

Intel’s Folsom, Calif., facility, where he once worked. Now,

the California Supreme Court will determine whether the former

employee’s e-mail is a form of electronic trespassing, as Intel

claims, or an expression of free speech. 
 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/794127.asp 
 
....Intel has already won 3 rounds of court battle