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Search of Hard Drive Raises Fourth Amendment Issue, Circuit Says
Citing the dangers of overly broad search warrants for computer hard drives, a federal appeals court has vacated the conditional guilty plea of a Tioga County man who admitted to production and possession of child pornography.
Facebook Postings Barred From Discovery in Accident Case
The plaintiff in a car accident case does not have to accept a friend request on Facebook from the defendant so that the defendant can have full access to the plaintiff's postings and pictures, a Bucks County, Pa., Common Pleas Court judge has ruled. The defendant wanted access to injury photos that the plaintiff posted to the social networking site.
Government Takes Aim at H-1B Visa Program
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has sought in the past to restrict the outsourcing of information technology work to those companies that utilize the H-1B program. Its new guidance issued Jan. 8 aims to limit the ability of staffing companies to hire foreign professionals.
Alternative Fees Require Solid Infrastructure
The probability of winning a bid for an alternative fee engagement and having the engagement succeed depends on the extent to which the firm has developed an infrastructure to administer it. Chadbourne & Parke's Hal Stewart looks into the technology available to put alternative fees to work.
When E-Discovery Is Put to the Test
A federal district judge may send electronic discovery toward its most searching scrutiny yet. In a recent decision, Judge John M. Facciola recommended "concept searching," the use of complex search engines to locate electronic data, for a tardy producer to pick up the pace.
Drinker Biddle Forms an E-Discovery Subsidiary
Amid a flurry of law firms forming e-discovery practice groups, Drinker Biddle & Reath has taken the concept a step further by creating a subsidiary to handle the technical side of managing electronically stored information in litigation.
Predicting the Future of Predictive Coding
A decade ago, document review was conducted in windowless rooms on paper stored in bankers' boxes. Now the bulk of document review takes place electronically, but to keep up with the enormous volume of ESI lawyers would be wise to consider using computer-assisted review and especially predictive coding, comments Cozen O'Connor attorneys Hayes Hunt and Jillian R. Thornton.
New Audio and Video Interrogation Law Passed by Conn. Legislature
For years, Connecticut criminal defense attorneys have campaigned for a law that would require police to record all interrogations of suspects, a measure many attorneys believe would reduce the number of coerced confessions. This year, lawmakers got the picture. The recording bill was one of many legal-related measures approved by lawmakers in the just-finished legislative session.Trending Stories
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