New Rules Proposed on Electronic Evidence

davidtspf writes "The committee that makes the rules of procedure for U.S. federal courts is now considering new rules governing electronic evidence, how much litigants need to produce at trial, and under what circumstances. Civil rights attorneys are arguing that the rules will make it harder to find smoking guns, while a number of corporations, including Microsoft have submitted comments arguing for further limits. LawMeme has an article with more background, comparing the process to debates over IP law that occur in a vacuum of empirical data, and encouraging techies to submit requests to extend the public comment period, which ended today."

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Of course any tort reform pisses them off

[ShatteredDream]

God forbid that there be protections that don't expose a company's entire operation to public scrutiny. Look at the companies they listed and tell me which one really gipped the public. None of them. If you're a smoker then you have only yourself to blame for your health problems, especially if you are under 30 years old. If you are too cheap to buy a Mac or learn Linux then your usage of Windows is your own damn problem. I remember when BeOS was around, you could buy the upgrades for what, $25.00 yet how many of these professional whiners supported Be? They'd rather force Microsoft to behave like Be than actually support Be.

What I am personally sick of are the professional litigator-activists who lose in the court of public opinion so they then take out their failure on the democratic process by going to the courts.