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We now live in an age where the vast majority of personal, corporate, and government data are maintained in electronic form. This changeover from a paper system to a digital system, along with the increase of internet "social discourse" has vast implications for the criminal and civil justice systems. It impacts the discovery rules as well as the rules of of evidence. This course will focus on issues relating to the discovery of electronically stored information and the evidentiary issues which surround their use at trial.

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John B. v. Goetz, 531 F.3d 448 (6TH Cir. 2008). Sixth Circuit grants mandamus petition and sets aside order of the district court allowing plaintiff’s experts to make forensic copies of the hard drives of the work stations of the state’s key custodians but also and privately owned computers on which the custodians may have performed or received work related to the case.

E-discovery Beyond the Federal Rules, 37 U.Balt. L.R. 321 (2008)

This is an excellent update on e-discovery issues by Rick Marcus who is the Special Reporter of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. Rick was deeply involved in the drafting of the recent e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Article by Judge Carrol
lPRESERVATION OF DOCUMENTS IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE - WHAT SHOULD COURTS DO?