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OK, don’t find it on Facebook (any more, anyway)

September 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Evidence

Sharon Nelson of Sensei Enterprises Inc., the Fairfax-based computer forensics firm, and her husband/business partner John Simek were in Grundy recently to deliver a talk at the Appalachian School of Law.
Sharon and John went to talk about marketing one’s self online, including a number of warnings about employers using Facebook to check on applicants. The […]

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Judicial Council recommends rules on evidence, privacy

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Evidence, Privacy, Supreme Court of Virginia

The Virginia Judicial Council sent to the Supreme Court of Virginia today a formal set of Rules of Evidence and a proposed Part Nine to the Supreme Court’s rules that would regulate access to private information in court records.
The proposed Rules of Evidence are the result of more than 20 years of off and on […]

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Moral: Don’t write that stuff on the company computer

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments · Evidence, Supreme Court of Virginia

Here’s a nugget for the employment bar from Banks v. Mario Industries of Virginia Inc., decided today by the Supreme Court: Disclaimers about no expectation of privacy in the use of company computers will be upheld, and attorney-client privilege is no help to an ex-employee on the point.
The Banks case was a business-tort claim […]

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