Brown v. Tellermate Holdings (Tellermate I)
United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
2013 WL 1363738 (2013)
- Written by Rich Walter, JD
Facts
Tellermate Holdings Ltd. (Tellermate) (defendant) was engaged in federal-court litigation with its former sales employees, Robert and Christine Brown (plaintiffs). In discovery, the Browns asked Tellermate to produce the historical sales data that Tellermate had used to evaluate the Browns’ performance. The Browns stated under oath that they had routinely accessed such historical data when they worked for Tellermate. Tellermate kept its sales data on servers belonging to a company known as Salesforce. Tellermate objected to the Browns’ discovery request, arguing that Tellermate could access real-time but not historical sales data, and that Tellermate’s contract with Salesforce prohibited Tellermate from divulging data maintained on Salesforce servers to third parties such as the Browns. The court examined the contract and could find no such prohibition.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Kemp, J.)
What to do next…
Here's why 806,000 law students have relied on our case briefs:
- Written by law professors and practitioners, not other law students. 46,300 briefs, keyed to 988 casebooks. Top-notch customer support.
- The right amount of information, includes the facts, issues, rule of law, holding and reasoning, and any concurrences and dissents.
- Access in your classes, works on your mobile and tablet. Massive library of related video lessons and high quality multiple-choice questions.
- Easy to use, uniform format for every case brief. Written in plain English, not in legalese. Our briefs summarize and simplify; they don’t just repeat the court’s language.
