RELEVANT CASE STUDIES
Ranta v. Ranta
Party Ordered to Stop Using Laptop and Turn It Over to the Court
2004 WL 504588 (Conn. Super. 2004)
In a divorce proceeding, the judge ordered the plaintiff "to stop using,
accessing, turning on, powering, copying, deleting, removing or uninstalling
any programs, files and or folders, or booting up her laptop computer." The
court order required the plaintiff to turn in her laptop to the court
clerk's office and to produce all floppy disks, CDs, and other similar
storage devices. The cost of hiring a computer forensics expert would be
split equally between the parties, and the forensics expert would be
required to sign a confidentiality agreement. If the parties could not agree
on a computer forensics expert, the court would make the selection from a
list comprised of two recommendations by each party. The defendant was also
ordered to purchase a replacement laptop for the plaintiff.
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