Courts weigh in on social media discovery requests 
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: November 19, 2012
Tags: Discovery, e-discovery, electronic discovery, Facebook, Federal Rules of Evidence, Home Depot, social media, social networking, technology
Lawyers still making their way along the learning curve of social media evidence may struggle to find guidance from court opinions.
But two recent decisions with different results offer some clues on how to narrowly focus a discovery request to pass muster.
Cashier with cancer gets $100,000 settlement
By:
Steve Lash
Published: September 11, 2012
Tags: cancer, Home Depot, Maryland, wrongful termination
Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. will pay $100,000 to a part-time Towson, Md. cashier the retailer allegedly fired because she had cancer, under a settlement the company reached last week with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Alcoholic employee can’t sue for discrimination
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: January 12, 2011
Tags: alcoholism, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, disability discrimination, Family and Medical Leave Act, Home Depot
An employee who suffered from alcoholism could not sue for discrimination after she was fired for showing up at work under the influence, the 7th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment.
