A Montgomery County, Pa., judge has allowed a man claiming he was sucker-punched during a work-sponsored soccer game to investigate the Facebook page of his alleged attacker, ostensibly to find information to bolster his civil lawsuit.
Common Pleas Court Judge William R. Carpenter’s ruling touches on a novel Facebook discovery request in that it was the plaintiff asking the court to turn over his opponent’s log-in credentials. The judge ordered the alleged attacker to not delete or otherwise erase any information on his Facebook account.
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