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The NYPD was served with an evidence preservation letter by federal agents ordering them not to destroy any electronic files — as investigators target information linked to alleged influence ...
As such, some courts have sometimes treated digital evidence differently for purposes of authentication, hearsay, the best evidence rule, and privilege. In December 2006, strict new rules were enacted within the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requiring the preservation and disclosure of electronically stored evidence. Digital evidence is ...
The Stored Communications Act (SCA, codified at 18 U.S.C. Chapter 121 §§ 2701–2713) [1] is a law that addresses voluntary and compelled disclosure of "stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records" held by third-party Internet service providers (ISPs).
A legal hold is a process that an organization uses to preserve all forms of potentially relevant information when litigation is pending or reasonably anticipated. [1] It is often issued when an organization receives a request for production in pending litigation.
A letter sent last month from the town of Hope Mills to former Police Maj. Bradley Rountree informed Rountree that he was terminated for allegedly removing items from evidence, according to a copy ...
Electronic information is usually accompanied by metadata that is not found in paper documents and that can play an important part as evidence (e.g. the date and time a document was written could be useful in a copyright case). The preservation of metadata from electronic documents creates special challenges to prevent spoliation.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chair of the subcommittee examining the Jan. 6 hearings, told Fox News that the House select committee failed to adequately preserve materials.
In U.S. criminal law, a proffer agreement, proffer letter, proffer, or "Queen for a Day" letter is a written agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant or prospective witness that allows the defendant or witness to give the prosecutor information about an alleged crime, while limiting the prosecutor's ability to use that information against him or her.