Tonia Root’s 3-year-old son, Gage, suffered a massive brain hemorrhage that caused irreversible brain damage after he was struck by a car in front of a construction site in 2008.

When Root filed a negligence suit against Cape Coral and construction contractors, the defendants responded in a way that has become familiar since the advent of social media. Their discovery request sought full access to her Facebook account.

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