Saying there can be “little expectation of privacy” on a social networking site, a Pennsylvania judge has ordered a plaintiff in an auto accident case to turn over her Facebook username and password to the defendant, since the Facebook page brought up questions about the extent of the plaintiff’s injuries.
Prosecutors do not need a warrant to compel a cellular phone service provider to turn over data about call location, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., said in a ruling that examines the government’s attempt to get data from the provider amid a U.S.
Attorneys who worked with lead plaintiffs lawyer Steven Donziger to secure a multibillion-dollar environmental damage judgment against Chevron in Ecuador have been ordered to turn over documents to Chevron as the oil company pursues its racketeering claim that the judgment was obtained by fraud.
O’Melveny & Myers has moved for sanctions against MGA Entertainment, complaining that it failed to turn over a large portion of discovery in a fees dispute stemming from the firm’s representation of MGA in the first trial in its lengthy copyright infringement case against Mattel.
A Los Angeles judge has ordered dealerships to turn over repair records to plaintiffs attorneys in the sudden acceleration litigation against Toyota after an attempt by plaintiffs lawyers to view such documents collapsed in confusion.