Key Insight: authenticating social media posts and doing timely social media investigations
Nature of Case: Criminal
Electronic Data Involved: social media posts
Keywords: Facebook, social media posts, authentication
Key Insight: facebook information discovered after award was not allowed because Defendant could have developed information earlier and failed to do so.
Nature of Case: Personal Injury
Electronic Data Involved: Social Media
Keywords: post-judgment motion; new evidence; social media
Key Insight: Asserting well supported objection against a relevant request.
Nature of Case: personal injury
Electronic Data Involved: social media accounts, and postings
Keywords: social media records, mental state, postings
Key Insight: The Village did not preserve the facebook posts or text messages despite having that duty. Court ruled that severe sanctions were warranted including an adverse inference and legal fees.
Nature of Case: discrimination; zoning
Electronic Data Involved: Facebook posts and text messages
Keywords: adverse inference; facebook, texts
Key Insight: social media that was not authenticated was admitted at trial
Nature of Case: criminal, aggravated assault
Electronic Data Involved: inauthenticated social media evidence
Keywords: social media, in-authenticated, admissible
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