Greetings folks... where on earth can I find court cases involving the "reasonableness of electronic signatures" ?
Answers:
Rosenfeld v. Zerneck
4 Misc.3d 193, 776 N.Y.S.2d 458 (Sup. Ct. Kings Co., NY, May 4, 2004)
Court holds that e-mail sent by defendant accepting plaintiff's hold out to purchase existing property, upon which defendant typed his mark, satisfy the requirement of the Statute of Frauds that contracts for the verbs of an interest in indisputable property be evidenced by a writing. The Court nonetheless dismissed plaintiffs' claim, seeking specific gig of the party' alleged agreement, because the e-mails the party exchanged ruined to contain adjectives of the essential vocabulary of a contract for the Dutch auction of actual property.
Shattuck v. Klotzbach
Civ. Act. No. 01-1109A (Superior Ct., Mass., December 11, 2001)
The court denied defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's complaint, which sought to enforce a contract for the public sale of solid property between the party base on e-mails they exchanged. The court rejected defendants' claim that this contract be unenforceable by rectitude of the Statute of Frauds, holding that e-mails typed and sent by defendant containing a welcoming consisting of defendant's identify can constitute writings sufficient to sate the statute of frauds.
Law surrounded by your jurisdiction will, logically, depend on statues and court decision exceptional to where on earth you are.