Policy Documents

Blake J. Robbins v. Lower Merion School District

Mark S. Haltzman, et. al. –
February 11, 2010

Plaintiffs, Michael E. and Holly S. Robbins, bring this action on their own behalf and on behalf of their minor son, Blake J. Robbins, and as a Class Action on behalf of a class consisting of Plaintiffs and all other students, together with their parents and families (the "Class"), who have been issued a personal laptop computer equipped with a web camera ("webcam") by the Lower Merion School District. Plaintiffs and the Class seek to recover damages caused to the Plaintiffs and Class by Defendants' invasion of Plaintiffs' privacy, theft of Plaintiffs' private information and unlawful interception and access to acquired and exported data and other stored electronic communications in violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, The Computer Fraud Abuse Act, the Stored Communications Act, § 1983 of the Civil Rights Act, The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act and Pennsylvania common law.