Text messages inadmissible in drug trial 
Published: September 30, 2011
Tags: cell phone, evidence, hearsay, text messages
Prosecutors in a drug trial should not have been permitted to introduce text messages recovered from the defendant’s cell phone, a Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled in reversing a conviction.
2009: A year of high-tech ethical pitfalls
By:
Correy Stephenson
Published: January 8, 2010
Tags: attorney advertising, billing, blogs, ethics, instant messaging, legal marketing, legal research, legal websites, metadata, technology, text messages, virtual law practice
Ethics got high-tech in 2009. From texting clients to virtual law practice to posting questions on a listserv, lawyers struggled with the collision of professional responsibility and the ever-expanding world of technology.
Court considers privacy of texts on pagers
By:
Kimberly Atkins
Published: December 14, 2009
Tags: privacy, text messages
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether police officers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the text messages they send and receive on their city-issued pagers.
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