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Litigation

Feb. 23, 2012

Judge rules Facebook plaintiff cannot avoid deposition

A woman who sued Facebook Inc. for violating her privacy, then decided she did not want to be deposed because questions from the social networking site's lawyers would invade it further, must submit to a deposition, a San Jose judge ruled Tuesday.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A woman who sued Facebook Inc. for violating her privacy, then decided she did not want to be deposed because questions from the social networking site's lawyers would invade it further, must submit to a deposition, a San Jose judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal denied Angel Fraley's motion to avoid a deposition, ruling that her concerns about "embarrassing" questions from Facebook's attorneys at Cooley...

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