Entries in Civil Procedure (2)
KELOLAND: Janklow Starts a New Campaign--on the Beck Jury Pool
Steve sticks to the law. Parody is protected. Period.
Bill goes after the potential jurors who could hear this case should the case survive the motion to dismiss or summary judgment—the Argus leader sucks, Beck is mean, and Scott got screwed.
Sanford won the legal argument; but Janklow never does anything without a reason and he’s looking to rile up jurors against the Argus Leader, which he calls the “alternative newspaper.”
Extraordinary stuff. My thanks to KELOLAND.com for posting this.
Here it is:
Technorati Tags: Argus Leader, defamation, parody, Bill Janklow, Steve Sanford, litigation, libel
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Todd Epp
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FRCP: New Electronic Discovery Rules in Effect December 1
BORING POSTING ALERT! UNLESS YOU ARE LAWYER, AND THEN, ONLY IF YOU ARE A LITIGATOR, WILL YOU FIND THE FOLLOWING INTERESTING. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
December 1, 2006, revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure go into effect concerning the discovery of electronically stored information. It's only taken the Federal Rules over three decades to address the point that much of what goes on in business and in life is not on paper but on a hard drive or some other electronic storage device.
The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part has an excellent article on the new rules. Read: A Few Thoughts on Electronic Discovery After December 1, 2006
An excerpt:
Editor's Note: On December 1, 2006, electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure go into effect. In this seven-part series, Judge Lee H. Rosenthal, chair of the Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, offers an introduction to the new amendments and describes challenges they present for lawyers, litigants, and judges. The last time the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to acknowledge computers was 1970, when the words âdata and data compilationsâ were added to Rule 34. Thirty-six years later, long after the computer has become both ubiquitous and essential, it is time to do much more. On December 1, amendments will go into effect to make the discovery rules better able to accommodate the vast changes in information technology that have already occurred and that will inevitably continue. The need for the guidance the e-discovery rule amendments provide is reflected in the fact that courts have been applying the new rules since they were proposed, years before their effective date.
Here is Judge Rosenthal's first installment on the changes. I've scanned through it and it bears reading if you litigate: An Overview of the E-Discovery Rules Amendments
Todd Epp
Here's another source my legal brothers and sisters might also find handy on the rule changes from the ABA Section of Litigation. Read: Are you ready for the rule changes?
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