Amidst all the recent sound a fury over electronic discovery, don’t forget that Facebook as a matter of policy resists most efforts to obtain information about the clients it serves.
As the American Lawyer points out in the most recent bite at the social media apple, courts have ruled that the federal Stored Communications Act shields parties from disclosure of their private material – although other courts have come to different conclusions.
Judges in Indiana and most recently, New York, have honored discovery subpoenas for not only the public side of a personal injury lawsuit plaintiff’s Facebook account, but also its non-public side and historical material associated with it.
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Source: Law Forward
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