NY Top Court: Private Facebook Postings Not Off Limits in Discovery

[Historic NY]

New York’s top court ruled Tuesday that portions of a person’s private Facebook profile can be accessed by opponents in a lawsuit.

In a case that involved a horse, a fall and a Long Island park, the Court of Appeals said social media material is akin to, say, information kept in a file cabinet and should be relevant to litigants if relevant.

Limiting access only to a person’s public posts on Facebook runs counter to New York’s historically liberal rules of discovery in a trial, the court said in a 7-0 opinion.


https://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/facebook-new-york-court-of-appeals-1.16742381]