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Jun 11, 2010

Judge Proposes Facebook to Resolve Discovery Dispute

Eric Goldberg''s Technology & Marketing Law Blog reports on a federal magistrate in Tennessee who has proposed an innovative way to resolve a discovery dispute in a personal injury case. (The case is actually a little sexier than that: the plaintiff fell while dancing on the bar at the "Coyote Ugly" tavern in Nashville.)

Since the parties could not agree on discovery of Facebook information of the plaintiff and her witnesses, so that the defense could access pictures of the incident posted on the social networking site, Magistrate Joe B. Brown proposed an innovative solution: