Socially Aware

May 18, 2015 - E-Discovery, Discovery, Litigation
Effort to Hide Facebook Evidence by Deactivating Account Ends Badly for Louisiana Man
By: J. Alexander Lawrence
As social media has become ubiquitous, courts are wrestling with more discovery disputes involving social media accounts. In a recent case, Crowe v. Marquette Transportation Co. Gulf-Inland, LLC , the plaintiff deactivated his Facebook account in an effort to be able to claim that
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March 31, 2014 - E-Discovery, Discovery, Litigation
U.S. Courts’ Evolving Approaches to Social Media E-Discovery
By: J. Alexander Lawrence
Courts across the United States have now made clear that discovery of social media is fair game. At the same time, courts have consistently found that litigants will not be permitted to engage in social media fishing expeditions; rather, litigants will be required to
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June 18, 2012 - Copyright, Discovery, Litigation
What, What (In the Court): South Park Studios Shielded by Fair Use for Viral Video Parody
The Seventh Circuit held recently in Brownmark Films, LLC v. Comedy Partners that, under certain circumstances, a trial court may dismiss a copyright infringement case based on a fair use defense prior to discovery. Over the years, the satiric Comedy Central cartoon program South
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January 06, 2012 - Privacy, Discovery, Litigation
Standard for Discovery of Anonymous Internet Users’ Identities Remains in Flux
Plenty of press attention has been given to social media sites’ views on whether their users can use “handles” or pseudonyms instead of their real names. But much of the Internet’s social conversation remains dependent upon that dot-com staple, the anonymous message board. In
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Topic Archives: Discovery

Effort to Hide Facebook Evidence by Deactivating Account Ends Badly for Louisiana Man

By: J. Alexander Lawrence

U.S. Courts’ Evolving Approaches to Social Media E-Discovery

By: J. Alexander Lawrence

What, What (In the Court): South Park Studios Shielded by Fair Use for Viral Video Parody

Standard for Discovery of Anonymous Internet Users’ Identities Remains in Flux