Despite a company policy stating its e-mail accounts terminate at death, Yahoo has given a CD containing more than 10,000 pages of material to the Michigan family of a Marine killed in Iraq. Yahoo originally refused the request by the family of Lance Cpl. Justin M. Ellsworth, but the e-mail provider did not fight a probate judge's order issued last week. "This wasn't a big fat fight going on," said the family's attorney, who added that Yahoo "worked with us to do the right thing."
April 25, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
E-mail provider Yahoo has pledged to give the Michigan family of a Marine killed in Iraq full access to their son’s e-mail account, ending a legal tangle that began after his parents sought messages he wrote before his death.
An Oakland County probate judge signed an order Wednesday directing Yahoo Inc. to provide the contents of the e-mail account used by Lance Cpl. Justin M. Ellsworth, 20, who was killed Nov. 13 while inspecting a bomb in Anbar province.
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