It’s a good thing producers of The Good Wife aired their episode “A Few Words” when they did, or one of the best lines—for privacy litigators, at least—would’ve been moot. In this Privacy Tracker post, InfoLawGroup’s Tanya Forsheit, CIPP/US, breaks down the People v. Clark decision deeming Illinois’ two-party consent law unconstitutional and why most other two-party state laws won’t be affected—most notably California’s. “California’s two-party consent law does not suffer from the defect that doomed Illinois’s two-party consent law in Clark,” writes Forsheit, noting, however, “it remains to be seen, in California and elsewhere, what happens in close cases where it is far less clear whether all the parties have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the conversation.”
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