Email equivalent of Signature
- In Lamle v. Mattel, Inc., (Fed. Cir. 2005)(Dyk, J.), the court held that an e-mail under the pre-2000 California law is equivalent to a signed written agreement. (For post-2000 e-mails, the same answer is given under the then-effective Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, that "provides that a 'record or signature may not be denied legal effect or unenforceability solely because it is in electronic form.'") The holding is limited to the Federal Circuit's interpretation of California law. Judge Newman dissented.
