The SCA also makes a distinction between new and older emails that makes little sense today.
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Mr. Panzera said SCA will charge roughly 2% of the prize value for a perfect-bracket competition.
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Here, the SCA creates a sliding scale of restrictions that varies depending on the type of information being requested.
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Armstrong sued SCA after it delayed his 2005 bonus payment and raised questions about allegations involving his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
"I race the bike straight up fair and square, " Mr. Armstrong testified under oath in the SCA arbitration, the suit says.
It also claims Mr. Armstrong perjured himself in January 2006 when SCA was trying to prove in arbitration hearings that he cheated to win the Tour de France.
The U.S. Postal Service team owner, Tailwind Sports, took out an insurance policy with Dallas-based SCA Promotions in the unlikely event that Armstrong won year after year.
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In practice, it is easier for law enforcement to obtain most private communications and other electronic content under the SCA than to obtain a warrant for more traditional correspondence or papers.
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Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and others have fought for reform of the SCA, part of the larger Electronic Communications Privacy Act, with a lobbying effort known as Digital Due Process.
Yet cities vary hugely in their survival rates from SCA. (Seattle is among the best in the country.) Do you have any idea how well your city is doing?
At the more restrictive end of the spectrum, the SCA requires the government to obtain a search warrant to obtain unopened electronic communications that have been held in storage for less than 180 days.
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But those same attractions likewise make this information an even more appealing resource for law enforcement or others under the SCA. There already has been a fair amount of litigation concerning the discoverability of email.
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"The expertise that he brings to the table is the ability to size up substantial deals on fragmentary information very, very quickly, " said Bob Hamman, founder and president of SCA Promotions, the company that organized the Pepsi drawing.
Enacted in 1986 as part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the SCA originally was intended to create additional protections for owners of electronic data given the increasing use of third party vendors for data storage and electronic communications services.
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Paul Panzera, director of sales at SCA Promotions, said his company had been putting its capital on the line in perfect-bracket contests for more than a decade, backing competitions that have collectively garnered millions of entries, and the closest anyone got was 59 of the 63 games.
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