Unauthenticated Dates Make Satellite Photos Inadmissible, Texas Appeals Court Affirms

Mealey's (August 14, 2018, 1:44 PM EDT) -- HOUSTON — A trial court properly excluded three Google Earth photographs with dates that were not authenticated, a Texas appeals court affirmed Aug. 7 in a lawsuit brought by a plaintiff who claimed that she fell down a mattress store’s steps after being startled by an inflatable “tube man” near the front door (Ena Jones v. The Mattress Firm Holding Corp., et al., No. 14-17-00091, Texas App., 14th Dist., 2018 Tex. App. LEXIS 6140)....