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Westlaw News & Insight – National Litigation combines Reuters Legal News, analysis from respected authors, and high-value material from Westlaw.

A person may be considered a hostile witness if his testimony surprises the party who called the person to testify at trial.

After Texas joined the Union in 1845, Houston was elected governor of Texas, and he used the office to campaign against seccession – to no avail.

All judges, both circuit and district, must take care to ensure that case management innovations neither confuse litigants nor threaten their procedural rights.

Big Brother is watching and the blogosphere is curious. As we were going through a list of hot topics in social media this week, we noticed several articles were posted about legal issues that involve government agencies, or officials involved with surveillance, privacy, monitoring, or general use of social media. This Round-up will include stories about police use of Twitter, government snoops on Facebook, spying on Americans, and emerging hot legal issues that are arising from data scraping by administrative agencies. Enjoy.

Medical records written so that patients can understand them may seem inherently beneficial, but they can easily be turned against the physician in court.

The outcry from plaintiff attorneys has led to a couple of bills in Congress to “repeal” Twombly/Iqbal (see H.R. 4115 and S.1504) that would effectively circumvent the current process for reviewing and updating the procedural rules under the Rules Enabling Act (28 U.S.C. § 2072 et seq).

Westlaw News & Insight – California Litigation combines Reuters Legal News, analysis from respected authors, and high-value material from Westlaw.

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