Can the Court Force You to Turn Over Your Facebook Account? The Short Answer....
If you run a business there may be a time when, in the course of a lawsuit, you might want, and need, access to an employee’s or plaintiff’s Facebook, Twitter, or other social media account. Courts...
View ArticleUnder Threat of Sanctions, Twitter Discloses Occupy Wall Street Protester’s...
In our recent post, Can the Court Force You to Turn Over Your Facebook Account? The Short Answer. Yes, we discussed how courts around the country have been ordering parties to turn over social media...
View ArticleDiscovery of Social Media Accounts Might Be a Toss-up if Requests are Too...
Courts continue to ponder questions about how far reaching discovery of litigants’ social media accounts should be. You may recall that we wrote about this in Can the Court Force You to Turn Over Your...
View ArticleDiscovery of Information on Personal Devices Still At Issue In Trade Secret...
In trade secret litigation, we often seek to uncover whether a former employee has taken confidential trade secret information and stored it on a personal device, such as a smartphone. We sometimes do...
View ArticleYou Can’t Have That! Discovery Disputes Over Production of Social Media Posts...
We have written on a few occasions about how courts have viewed discoverability of social media posts and what might be a reasonable request for information contained on a social media site (see e.g....
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