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What Every Company Should Know About E-Discovery and Social Media
With the exponential growth in the use of social media by individuals and corporations, civil discovery questions inevitably follow. Courts and litigants have been left to grapple with questions...
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As we reported last month, the safe harbor in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”) immunizes social media providers from liability based on content posted by users under most...
View ArticleNew York Court to Criminal Defendant: Your Tweets May Be Used Against You
In past Socially Aware posts, we have discussed using subpoenas in civil litigation to obtain evidence from social media sites, including whether individuals have a privacy interest in this information...
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We’ve Come for Your Tweets: Twitter to Appeal Denial of Its Motion to Quash...
As the Occupy Wall Street protests fade from memory, a related discovery battle between Twitter and the New York County District Attorney rages on. Earlier this year, we discussed the District...
View ArticleMore Trouble With Work-Related Social Media Accounts
We have written before about cases involving disputes between employers and employees over work-related social media accounts, but a new case out of Arizona federal court raises issues that appear to...
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Spoliation of Social Media Evidence: New Jersey Court Cracks Down
A March 23, 2013 decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey serves as a cautionary tale for litigants. As a result of some arguably poor decisions by the plaintiff and likely...
View ArticleStop Insider Tweeting!—Feds Eye Social Media for Securities Shenanigans
Article courtesy of Morrison & Foerster’s MoFo Tech As financial institutions and investors turn to social media to instantly share snippets of news and potential clues about market trends, the FBI...
View ArticleNew York Court to Criminal Defendant: Your Tweets May Be Used Against You
In past Socially Aware posts, we have discussed using subpoenas in civil litigation to obtain evidence from social media sites, including whether individuals have a privacy interest in this information...
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We’ve Come for Your Tweets: Twitter to Appeal Denial of Its Motion to Quash...
As the Occupy Wall Street protests fade from memory, a related discovery battle between Twitter and the New York County District Attorney rages on. Earlier this year, we discussed the District...
View ArticleMore Trouble With Work-Related Social Media Accounts
We have written before about cases involving disputes between employers and employees over work-related social media accounts, but a new case out of Arizona federal court raises issues that appear to...
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Spoliation of Social Media Evidence: New Jersey Court Cracks Down
A March 23, 2013 decision from the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey serves as a cautionary tale for litigants. As a result of some arguably poor decisions by the plaintiff and likely...
View ArticleStop Insider Tweeting!—Feds Eye Social Media for Securities Shenanigans
Article courtesy of Morrison & Foerster’s MoFo Tech As financial institutions and investors turn to social media to instantly share snippets of news and potential clues about market trends, the FBI...
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