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Social Media Privacy Settings May Not Protect Your Information From Discovery

BakerHostetler on 3/16/2018

Users of social media are likely familiar with privacy settings, and understand that setting their profiles to “private” ensures that people who are not friends, connections or followers cannot view their information and...more

Is Discovery of Private Facebook Postings On Equal Footing With General Discovery Principles?

Sullivan & Worcester on 2/1/2016

Are private Facebook postings entitled to more stringent protections from civil discovery? A significant string of New York Appellate Division decisions seemed to suggest that they are. But a divided panel in Forman v....more

Socially Aware: The Social Media Law Update Volume 6, Issue 4

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 10/15/2015

Five social media law issues to discuss with your clients - The explosive growth of social media has clients facing legal questions that didn’t even exist a few short years ago. Helping your clients navigate this...more

Virtually Served in the Online World: The Intersection of Law and Technology

McManis Faulkner on 8/25/2015

Look around the playing fields where children practice soccer or baseball, and you will see many parents checking their phones. However, opening Facebook Messenger may lead to more than an invite to this weekend’s...more

Status Updates: Facebook Posts—Reliable Evidence?; Quora Post Costs Applicant a Job; a New Ephemeral Messaging App

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 5/21/2015

Facebook: Fact or fiction? These days, courts are more and more frequently faced with disputes over whether, as part of the discovery process, a litigant should be entitled to view the opposing party’s social media posts. As...more

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

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 5/18/2015

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...more

Hitting the Wall: Facebook and Divorce

Lewitt Hackman on 2/2/2015

A new survey sponsored by a group in the UK links Facebook to 33 percent of all divorces, up from a 2009 study that cites the social media site in 20 percent of divorce filings....more

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