Discovery Request for Social Media Accounts Is Found Too Broad
October 3, 2012
A trial court went too far in ordering the family of a motorcycle accident victim to disclose to the manufacturer/defendant the "entire accounts" of any social media or Internet postings on behalf of the injured biker, an upstate appellate panel has held.
Facebook: Friend or Foe in Personal Injury Litigation?
October 3, 2012
Frank J. Lombardo, a partner at Malapero & Prisco, writes: In a country in which 66 percent of online adults are connected to one or more social media platform, the court has finally accepted that social media records are subject to the same liberal rules of discovery as other forms of evidence.
Authenticating Social Media Evidence
October 2, 2012
In their Federal E-Discovery column, H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, write that the cloud-based, transient, and collaborative nature of social media sites sites poses challenges unique to these media.
