Harris, Appellant v. Mastec North America, Inc. D/B/A Mastec Advanced Technologies, DIRECTV, LLC and AT&T, Inc., Appellees – Memorandum Opinion; Appellant assaulted by Appellee Mastec North America Inc.’s employee while he was in her hMoe to install DIRECTV service; Trial court granted Appellees’ respective summary judgment motions and denied her motion for continuance sustained objections to her late response to one of those motions. Appellate Court affirmed Texas View
2016 IL App Opinion (Carlson v. Jerousek) – reversing grant of broad discovery; privacy PC data; Issue – circumstances under which a party to a civil suit may inspect the contents of another person’s computer through forensic imaging, seeking metadata and other information; holding: request was contrary to discovery protocol, information sough was not clearly specified and the probative value of that information was questionable while the burden to plaintiff’s privacy interest was significant, and there were ample avenues open to defendants to discovery the info they sought without granting them broad access to plaintiff’s computers Illinois View
