Recent plaintiffs continue to find themselves slapped with evidence from social networking sites that endanger or even completely derail their cases, despite attempts to argue that such information is protected.

We’ve written before about the growing trend of lawyers mining social media sites for evidence against opposing parties, and recent court decisions have affirmed the unprivileged nature of said information.

For instance, both parties to a case asked a district court in Pennsylvania last month to conduct a review of the plaintiff’s social networking profiles to determine what was subject to discovery.

The court proceeded to identify relevant information, such as “photographs and comments suggesting he may have recently ridden a mule,” which the court thought the defense could used to argue against the plaintiff’s claims that a car accident had left him physically and psychologically injured. Read more on this here.

via Facebook, Myspace, Fair Game as Evidence in Court – Law Blog – WSJ.