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Massachusetts Highest Court Rules in Favor of Personal Representatives' Access to Decedent's Yahoo Email Account Under Federal Law
On October 16, 2017, the highest court in Massachusetts found that a federal law known as the Stored Communications Act (SCA) does not prevent the Personal Representatives of an estate from accessing the content of a decedent's Yahoo email account, but remanded the case to the Probate Court to resolve a second issue of whether Yahoo's terms of services agreement bars access.
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