By Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint Actor Steve Martin, while on jury duty, tweeted the following to 380,000 fans: “REPORT FROM JURY DUTY: defendant looks like a murderer. GUILTY. Waiting for opening remarks.” A few hours later, Martin added, “REPORT…
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Steve Martin the Juror – New Federal Jury Instructions on Social Media
Tagged with: Federal Jury Instructions, Hayes Hunt, Jurors, jury deliberation, Social Media Law, Steve Martin Juror
Posted in Trial
Posted in Trial
Is “Liking” a Political Candidate on Facebook Free Speech?
By Hayes Hunt and Jillian Thornton The amount of political rhetoric on Facebook is staggering. People are using Facebook to give you a “play-by-play” of what they think about the November presidential election. Facebook has recently filed a brief in…
Facebook “Friends”, 4th Amendment Privacy & Probable Cause
By: Hayes Hunt and Brian Kint A recent court decision has added support to the idea that there is no privacy on the internet. In United States v. Meregildo, defendant Melvin Colon moved to suppress evidence seized from his Facebook…
Tagged with: 4th Amendment, Facebook, Hayes Hunt, Probable Cause, Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, Search Warrant, Social Media Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Facebook And Twitter Subpoenas, Privacy And The Law
By Hayes Hunt and Jillian Thornton 955 million people are Facebook users and there are 500 million Twitter users worldwide. With these staggering numbers, social media is a goldmine or minefield for lawyers seeking information. What happens when a lawyer…
Tagged with: Discovery, privacy, Social Media Law, subpoena, Technology and Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Uses of Social Media for Corporate Counsel – Investigating & Defending Claims
by: Hayes Hunt and Jonathan A. Cavalier By now, most litigators have bumped up against at least one or two social media issues in their practices. Social media has become a hot-button discovery issue and a potential source of valuable…
Social Media – Screening at Work and Job Interview
by: Hayes Hunt and Jonathan R. Cavalier Companies now frequently use social media to vet applicants, with some even going so far as to force applicants to permit company employees to access their various social media sites. With Facebook expected…
Tagged with: Employer Duty, Hayes Hunt, Job Interview, Jon Cavalier, Screening Employees, Social Media, Social Media Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Posted in Social Media & Law
Juror Misconduct & Criminal Contempt. In California, Tweet and Go to Jail
In an effort to deal with the ever increasing misuse of social media at trial, the California Legislature amended the criminal contempt definition to include juror misconduct as outlined below. CA Assembly Bill 141. Signed into law by Gov. Brown…
Using Social Media to Track Juror’s Online Postings
By Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr. and Lindsey E. Wilkinson Just as lawyers now routinely conduct due diligence on opposing parties’ social media pages (see our July 20 Sidebar post), some lawyers also are monitoring postings by jurors on social media…
Tagged with: Due Dillgence, Facebook, From the Sideabr, Hayes Hunt, Juror Misconduct, Jurors, Jury, Mistrial, Social Media, Social Media Law, Thomas Wilkinson, Trial, Trial Practice, Twitter law
Posted in Trial
Posted in Trial
Using Social Media for Discovery Has Ethical Implications.
By Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr. and Lindsey E. Wilkinson It has become common practice for lawyers to mine social media pages of parties and witnesses for discovery purposes. But can the urge to dig up dirt on opposing parties cause lawyers…
Tagged with: Cross Examination, Discovery, Ethics, Exhibits, From the Sidebar, Impeachment, Lindsey Wilkinson, Social Media Law, Tom Wilkinson, Witnesses
Posted in The Practice of Law
Posted in The Practice of Law
