Case Law & Court Rules

On December 5, 2014, the Kansas Supreme Court suspended for 6 months an attorney who sent a Facebook “emotional blackmail” message to a unrepresented party. The sanctioned lawyer represented a biological father opposed to the adoption of his daughter. The attorney sent a Facebook message to the 18-year-old biological mother, who was not represented by counsel, […]

Judicial Discipline & Disability Comm’n v. Maggio,2014 Ark. 366,2014 Ark. LEXIS 468(Ark.2014) Judge Mike Maggio admittedly blogged and commented under the pseudonym of “geauxjudge” in public electronic forum  “www.tigerdroppings.com”. Among the other posts, he also commented on a confidential adoption of a child by a Hollywood star. On september 11, 2014, the Supreme Court of Arkansas accepted […]

In this case Defendants filed a Motion to Compel Plaintiff to Respond to Defendant’s Discovery Requests. Defendant had requested Plaintiff to produce information from her Facebook account. Plaintiffs resisted the motion, arguing that “her Facebook account is unlikely to include relevant information, because, as she stated in her deposition, she rarely used the account, and when […]

Full text available on http://www.kscourts… On January 13, 2014, the Kansas Supreme Court recommended the sanction of informal admonition for Defendant Sarah Peterson Herr. Defendant is a former research attorney for the Kansas Court of Appeals. During a November 15, 2012 Kansas Supreme Court hearing (disciplinary proceeding against Mr. Phill Kline, former Kansas attorney general) […]

  In these combined appeals (Lester v. Allied Concrete, 2013 Va. LEXIS 8 (Jan. 10, 2013)), Virginia Supreme Court confirmed the trial court’s decision to deny a new trial based on the misconduct by plaintiff and its attorney. The Court reversed the trial court’s order of remittur, though. The most interesting part of the case for us […]

In this case employment discrimination case Defendant (Ferrellgas) filed a motion to compel Plaintiff (Held) to produce data from Plaintiff’s Facebook account. Plaintiff objected, stating that the information is “irrelevant, confidential and private”. The court granted Defendant’s motion to compel discovery as it appears that Defendant is attempting to mitigate Plaintiff’s privacy concerns by allowing […]