More lawyers are learning the hard way that courts will not grant social media discovery requests without first laying a foundation for access to the accounts and information being sought. A trial court judge on New York's Long Island recently granted two different motions to strike defense requests for social…
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A Brooklyn jury acquitted a man accused of gun possession charges after his criminal defense lawyers discovered a treasure trove of derogatory, racist digital evidence on a Facebook group created by NYPD officers. According to the New York Times, police officers who did not want to work at New York…
Last week a New York trial judge denied a defense discovery request for a personal injury plaintiff's current and historical Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter account information. New York Justice George J. Silver of State Supreme Court in Manhattan reasoned that simply making conclusory allegations that a party's "Facebook account is…