Government’s Motion To Compel Texts, Facebook Content From Victim’s Parents Denied

(December 9, 2015, 10:19 AM EST) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A California federal judge on Dec. 2 denied a motion by the federal government to compel the text messages and Facebook content of a decedent’s parents in a negligence suit over an auto accident, finding that the government did not meet its burden to show that the parents had possession or control over the requested materials or any obligation to obtain them in response to the government’s discovery requests (Richard Clymore, et al. v. Federal Railroad Administration, et al., No. 1:14-cv-00101, E.D. Calif.; 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 162529)....