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58 S. C. L. Rev. 275 (2006-2007)
Twenty-First Century Pillow-Talk: Applicability of the Marital Communications Privilege to Electronic Mail

handle is hein.journals/sclr58 and id is 283 raw text is: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PILLOW-TALK: APPLICABILITY OF THE MARITAL COMMUNICATIONS PRIVILEGE TO ELECTRONIC MAIL MIKAH K. STORY* I. INTRODUCTION ............................................. 276 II. THE HISTORY OF THE MARITAL COMMUNICATIONS PRIVILEGE ....... 277 I1. W EB-BASED ELECTRONIC MAIL ............................... 283 A. Privacy Agreements ..................................... 283 B. Fourth Amendment Protection ............................. 284 C. The Stored Communications Act ........................... 286 IV. ANALYSIS OF THE MARITAL COMMUNICATIONS PRIVILEGE AS APPLIED TO WEB-BASED E-MAIL ............................ 288 A. Applicability of the Marital Communications Privilege to Letters . 288 B. Applicability of the Marital Communications Privilege to Oral Communications ................................. 291 C. The Effect of E-mail on Applicability of the Professional P rivileges ............................................. 293 1. E-mail and the Attorney-Client Privilege ................. 294 2. A Comparison of the Marital Communications Privilege to the Other Evidentiary Privileges ...................... 297 3. Legislative Solutions ................................. 303 V. THE FUTURE OF THE MARITAL COMMUNICATIONS PRIVILEGE ........ 304 A. The Utilitarian Approach ................................. 305 B. The Humanistic Approach ................................ 308 1. The Informational Privacy Rationale .................... 309 2. The Individual Autonomy Rationale ..................... 310 VI. CONCLUSION ............................................... 316 * Associate Professor of Law, the University of Missouri-Kansas City. I am deeply grateful to the entire faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, with special thanks to Dean Ellen Suni, Nancy Levit, Robert Klonoff, Barbara Glesner Fines, David Achtenberg, and Jasmine Abdel-khalik. I would also like to thank Kelly McCambridge-Parker for her exceptional research assistance and my administrative assistant, Debra Banister, for her hard work..

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