Social Media, Jury Selection

Defending Against Courtroom Conspiracies Through Storytelling

IMS Legal Strategies on 4/4/2024

Misinformation "poses an unprecedented threat in 2024," according to NBC News. No matter which side of the many social divides someone stands on, they can find a readily available source to support their opinion—and a...more

Trick or Treat? How Social Media Research Can Work at Trial

U.S. Legal Support on 10/25/2022

Social media research in litigation has –- somewhat informally— been the topic of the month here at U.S. Legal Support. It’s such a fast-moving and interesting discipline, we simply can’t stop talking about it! To finish out...more

Using Internet Research to Get to Know Your Prospective Jurors

U.S. Legal Support on 5/13/2021

With the rise of social media, there is now a great deal of public information existing on the internet about many individuals. As part of jury selection, this information can be gathered and analyzed to provide attorneys...more

Remember that Feelings Trump Facts

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 2/2/2021

In recent days, I’ve been thinking about all of the “QAnon” followers, and how and whether they are reconciling recent events with their belief in Donald Trump’s role in purging the top echelons of politics and society before...more

Political Affiliations and Jury Selection: Using Social Media and Voir Dire to Impact Juror Selection and Outcomes

Rumberger | Kirk on 6/26/2020

With today’s ever-changing political climate, a juror’s political affiliation is an important factor to consider throughout the voir dire process. Political attitudes can create gridlocks, contention and animosity among...more

Ask the Court to Help You Look for Stealth Jurors

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 3/6/2020

When Trump associate Roger Stone was sentenced last month for obstruction of Congress and witness tampering, there was some pushback from media, Stone’s legal team, and the President himself targeting the jury’s foreperson, a...more

De-Stealth Your Potential Juror

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 1/6/2020

Harvey Weinstein goes to trial this week. Out of approximately eighty women accusing the former Hollywood mogul of sexual misconduct over the past few decades, two assault cases will be heard by a jury this week in Manhattan....more

See the Threads of Conspiracy Thinking

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message on 11/12/2018

As our team was conducting a recent social media analysis on a jury pool, one particular potential juror stood out. He was, as he proudly proclaimed in his public online messages, a “flat-earther.” And this belief of his,...more

Social Links: Google penalizes sites with pop-up ads; proposed Federal legislation to criminalize revenge porn; ad industry group...

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 8/29/2016

Google is cracking down on mobile pop-up ads by knocking down the search-result position of websites that use them. The National Labor Relations Board decided a social media policy that Chipotle had in place for its...more

Friday Links - April 2016 #3

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 4/29/2016

A lawsuit alleges this Snapchat feature is making driving even more dangerous, and it’s not texting or instant messaging. This state is considering imposing hefty fines on jurors who post information to social media...more

Judge in High-Profile Case Obtains Attorney Agreement Not to Engage in Juror Social Media Snooping

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 4/28/2016

It seems that almost everyone uses social media today. Of course, this means that most every juror is a social media user, and that courts are dealing with the thorny questions that arise out of the proliferation of social...more

Friend Request Denied: Judge Asks Attorneys to Refrain from Social Media Searches of Jurors

Proskauer - Minding Your Business on 4/12/2016

In late March 2016, a California federal judge asked both Google, Inc. and Oracle America, Inc. to voluntarily consent to a ban against Internet and social media research on empaneled or prospective jurors until the...more

Google and Oracle agree not to research potential jurors’ social media accounts

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 4/8/2016

Litigating companies Google and Oracle have mutually agreed, at the strong recommendation of the presiding judge, to refrain from researching the social media accounts of a potential jury pool before and during a high stakes...more

Are Pins, Posts, Tweets and Likes Appropriate for Use in Selecting Jurors?

Weintraub Tobin on 4/4/2016

When you hear the name of someone you can’t place or don’t know much about, what do you do? Chances are, you “Google” them. Well that is what attorneys are doing to learn more about prospective jurors too! But they are not...more

Google Searches & Jury Selection: What Role Should Social Media Have in Voir Dire?

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog on 3/22/2016

We have written previously about the role of traditional discovery roles in “newer” platforms, and how social media content can be discoverable and used in litigation. What about using information from social media in jury...more

Ethical Issues That Arise From Social Media Use In Courtrooms

Troutman Pepper on 10/14/2013

With the rampant expansion of social media and online technologies over the past decade, it is no surprise that Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and blogs have made their way into the courtroom, pervaded the...more

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