Twittering Juror Has ‘Appeal’…of $12.6M

Defendants appeal $12.6M verdict, allege juror sent ‘tweets’ during trial that show bias

A building materials company and its owner have appealed a $12.6 million verdict against them, alleging that a juror posted messages on Twitter.com during the trial that show he’s biased against them.

The motion seeking a new trial was filed Thursday on [...]

You’ve Been Served – On Facebook?

An Australian lawyer has won the right to serve a default judgment by posting the terms of the judgment on the defendants’ Facebook “Wall”. In a December 2008 ruling that appears to be the first of its kind anywhere in the world, Master Harper of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory held that [...]

MySpace – MyEmails – MyPrivacy?

A married woman in Nevada sued her employer, claiming that he sent her inappropriate emails and gave her unwanted sexual attention. During the lawsuit, the employer’s lawyer discovered that the woman had set up a MySpace account where she pretended to be single. The employer’s lawyer wanted to see her Myspace emails; if this woman [...]

Software and Semantics

Following a recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, government institutions now have to go the extra mile to comply with their MFIPPA obligation to provide access to information stored in their electronic databases – even if they have to design special software, from scratch, to get at the information.
James Rankin, a journalist with [...]

Production of Facebook Profiles for Use in Civil Litigation

FACEBOOK IN THE COURTROOM

In a recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued on February 20, 2009, Justice Brown ordered the production of a plaintiff’s private Facebook profile.   This is the second Canadian decision to order production of private Facebook pages for use in personal injury insurance litigation.  The full text of Justice Brown’s decision, Leduc v. [...]