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New Proposed Jury Instruction on Electronic Devices

March 03, 2010 10:31

At its last meeting, the Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management (CACM) endorsed a set of suggested jury instructions that federal district judges are to consider using to help deter jurors from using electronic technologies to research or communicate...

Trial Teams, Technology & Preservation Troubles

March 02, 2010 20:47

In this edition of the ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes Doug Cohen, Senior Director of Business Development for Kroll Ontrack/TrialGraphix and Dr. Dan Wolfe, Director of Jury Consulting for Kroll...

Oral Arguments in Skilling Case Focus on Jury Selection Issues, Less Emphasis on Honest Services Fraud

March 02, 2010 03:23

According to Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog,  Ashby Jones at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, and Professor Ellen S. Podgor of Stetson University College of Law and the White Collar Crime Prof Blog, the U.S. Supreme Court seemed more interested in the jury selection/fair trial issues in...

Florida jury awards carpenter $210,000

February 19, 2010 19:43

Congratulations to carpenter Dennis Brown for his courageous efforts to expose unhealthy conditions at the Broward County School District in Florida. Brown raised concerns about the atrocious environment he was forced to work in. A mildew infested classroom made his asthma worse. He...

Whistleblowing nurse Anne Mitchell acquitted in Texas

February 15, 2010 18:42

A jury in Andrews, Texas, has acquitted an experienced nurse of charges that she misused official information when she sent an anonymous letter to a state medical board to complain about a doctor's malpractice.  Anne Mitchell had been a nurse at the Winkler County Memorial Hospital for 25...