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Protective Order Barring Use of Discovery Materials in Other Litigation Was Vacated

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A protective order barring post-settlement use by plaintiffs’ counsel of defendant’s discovery responses in other litigation was vacated in Cordero v. Columbia submitted an affidavit stating that the protective order had a “tremendous chilling effect” on its advocacy in other matters. Stemilt AG Services, LLC, __ F. Phillips ex rel.

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Best Evidence Rule Requires Post-Level Collection for Social Media Evidence

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The plaintiff had deleted his Facebook account resulting in lost evidence critical to the case. The plaintiffs’ had sought to offer screenshots as evidence of the Facebook communications instead of the deleted native files.

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Texas Upholds Narrow Geofence Warrant After Melee Resulted in Murder

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The affidavit requesting the warrant described Googles capabilities and asserted that it was likely that at least one of the four suspects had an Android device. These two steps sought temporally and spatially limited location history data consistent with existing case law regarding cell phone location information.