Two Pennsylvania courts have recently denied defense motions asking for access to plaintiffs’ private social media pages, apparently evening the social media scoreboard and giving plaintiffs some much-needed case law to counter a trio of opposing decisions.
In one of the cases, a Franklin County judge denied an auto-accident defendant’s motion asking for access to the plaintiff’s social media pages because the request did not stem from information found on the plaintiff’s public profile. It appears to be the first decision in this state to deal with social media discovery in which the defendant could not point to content available for anyone to see.
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