The Motor City’s embattled mayor, who is embroiled in a scandal in which text-messaging triggered criminal charges against him, is seeking refuge in a recent federal appeals court ruling in California.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that a wireless phone company violated federal law when it released a police officer’s text messages — some of them sexually explicit — to his employer. See Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co. Inc., No. 07-55282.

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