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May 14, 2018

Magistrate Judge Rules on ESI Disputes in Twitter Securities Class Action

In Shenwick v. Twitter, Inc., No. 16-cv-05314-IST, (N.D. California, Feb. 7, 2018), a securities class action filed on behalf of certain persons who bought or acquired common stock of Twitter, Inc. (“Twitter”) in 2015, the magistrate judge resolved several ESI-related discovery disputes. First, the parties disagreed regarding the scope of custodians. The parties agreed that

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January 29, 2018

California Supreme Court to Review Whether Criminal Defendant Has a Constitutional Right to Obtain Social Media Records

Facebook, Inc. v. Superior Court, No. D072171, 15 Cal. App. 5th 729 (2017) relates to a criminal case where the defendants in a gang-related drive-by shooting case subpoenaed the Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram posts of a murder victim and a witness. The social media companies moved to quash the subpoenas, objecting under the federal Stored Communications

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Magistrate Judge Rules on ESI Disputes in Twitter Securities Class Action

California Supreme Court to Review Whether Criminal Defendant Has a Constitutional Right to Obtain Social Media Records