Ye v. Veissman, Inc., No. 14-cv-01531, 2016 WL 950948 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 7, 2016)

Key Insight: Where Defendants requested a full archive of social media contents from the decedent and her next of kin from 2007 through the date of Plaintiff?s death in April 2013, the court acknowledged that some social media content may be relevant to the claims and defenses at issue but found that where the request was not tailored to relevant content or limited to a reasonable period of time it was overbroad and Defendants? motion to compel was denied

Nature of Case: Wrongful death

Electronic Data Involved: Social media (Facebook)