Civil Litigation
Jun. 16, 2012
eDiscovery: Eaton v. Frisby, discovery’s first Watergate scandal?
A lengthy, ongoing dispute in Mississippi has the judge sorting through a predecessor's lapse of judgment.
A. Marco Turk
Emeritus Professor
CSU Dominguez Hills
Email: amarcoturk.commentary@gmail.com
A. Marco Turk is a contributing writer, professor emeritus and former director of the Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding program at CSU Dominguez Hills, and currently adjunct professor of law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law.
Between 1972 and 1974, a U.S. president fell from grace because of corruption and scandal emanating from an elaborate scheme to burglarize the Democratic Party's National Committee offices on June 17, 1972. But for the alert actions of a security guard, the scandal may never have seen the light of day and Richard Nixon would have ridden out the balance of his term without suffering this historical black mark.
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