Recently Sony Pictures Entertainment was the target in a  series of cyber attacks.

It shut down the company's computers, revealing employee information and email exchanges between Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony and other executives.

Yesterday attorney David Boies sent a strongly worded letter to news organizations asking them not to publish information from the massive data dump.

The letter, sent to a variety of news organizations including the New York Times, referred to the documents as "stolen information" and demanded that the files be ignored, or destroyed

Here's a copy of the letter that was sent to the tech news site, RE/code.  But does the letter have any legal merit? 

To find out more on the legal questions raised by the Sony hack and the letter, we talk to Eugene Volokh, he's a law professor at UCLA and founder of the legal blog, the Volokh Conspiracy.