"Social media impacts every facet of life and is often discussed in DuetsBlog posts. Courts are now having to address social media issues in connection with jurors. A federal judge in California is considering banning the use of social media altogether in a copyright case before him brought by Oracle America, Inc. against Google, Inc. at case No. C 10-03561 (WHA).

The parties jointly proposed the use of a juror questionnaire, and a multiple-day procedure for a neutral vendor to collect the information for the parties. The judge suspected that this was designed to obtain information about the potential jurors so that the parties could perform extended internet investigations on them prior to the voir dire process. He did not like it."

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