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Subpoenaing Social Media and Phone Records: How to Compel Production and Expose Hidden Evidence

Master subpoena strategies to obtain digital evidence, navigate privacy laws, and unmask anonymous users to strengthen your civil litigation practice and secure critical platform data.

2025-12-11 14:00:00

1.5 hours

Program Details

2025-12-11 14:00:00

2025-12-11 14:00:00

1.5h CLE Credits

2025-12-11 14:00:00

1.5 hours

Program Details

2025-12-11 14:00:00

Program Details

2025-12-11 14:00:00

Over 1,000+ webinars

2025-12-11 14:00:00

1.5 hours

Course Overview

The Evidence Lives on a Server You Don't Control

2025-12-11 14:00:00

Critical evidence in defamation, harassment, employment, and PI cases now sits with third-party platforms and ISPs that answer to federal privacy law, not your subpoena. Getting it requires a procedure most litigators were never taught.

Serve a content subpoena on the wrong statute and the platform produces nothing. The Stored Communications Act blocks message content but releases metadata and subscriber data. Skip domestication and your out-of-state subpoena is unenforceable. Wait too long and the spoliation clock runs before you send a preservation letter.

This program gives you the working procedure: how to draft SCA-compliant subpoenas that survive overbreadth objections, domesticate them across state lines under the UIDDA, meet the Dendrite standard to pierce anonymity, and chain platform IP data through ISP subpoenas to a named defendant — plus the preservation-letter and John Doe filings that lock the evidence down.

Format

CLE Credit

1.5h CLE Credits

Level

Intermediate

Length

1.5

Key topics that will be covered

01
Evidence Preservation
Issue preservation letters before the demand or suit so spoliation sanctions stay available.
02
Stored Communications Act
Draft requests that survive the SCA: metadata and subscriber data yes, content no.
03
Interstate Discovery
Domesticate subpoenas across state lines under the UIDDA before serving out-of-state platforms.
04
Overcoming Objections
Counter platform pushback with meet-and-confer, motions to authorize discovery, and motions to compel.
05
Unmasking Standards
Meet the Dendrite five-step test to pierce anonymity over a John Doe defendant’s objection.
06
ISP Subpoenas
Chain platform IP logs to ISP subscriber records to put a real name on the defendant.

Program schedule

clock 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm EST

LEGAL FRAMEWORKS & DRAFTING EFFECTIVE SUBPOENAS

Analyze the Stored Communications Act and state discovery rules to craft narrowly tailored requests. Focus on maximizing the likelihood of obtaining useful data while successfully withstanding overbreadth objections during civil litigation and ensuring compliance with federal privacy standards.

Aaron MincAaron Minc
Michael PelagalliMichael Pelagalli
clock 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm EST

CROSS-JURISDICTIONAL & MULTI-PLATFORM DISCOVERY COORDINATION

Address the logistical complexities of domesticating subpoenas across various state lines for litigation. Master specific procedures for dealing with foreign platforms and managing complex international data requests while coordinating discovery efforts across multiple social media networks.

Aaron MincAaron Minc
Michael PelagalliMichael Pelagalli
clock 2:40 pm - 3:00 pm EST

PLATFORM COMPLIANCE & OVERCOMING OBJECTIONS

Develop strategies for handling typical pushback from ISPs and social media companies. Utilize meet-and-confer negotiations, motions to authorize discovery, and motions to compel when dealing with deleted content or uncooperative platforms that refuse to produce records.

Aaron MincAaron Minc
Michael PelagalliMichael Pelagalli
clock 3:10 pm - 3:25 pm EST

EVIDENCE PRESERVATION & SPOLIATION PREVENTION

Implement preservation strategies before litigation begins by issuing effective preservation letters to third parties. Build the necessary legal foundation for spoliation sanctions when critical digital evidence is intentionally destroyed, altered, or otherwise made unavailable for trial.

Aaron MincAaron Minc
Michael PelagalliMichael Pelagalli
clock 3:25 pm - 3:40 pm EST

UNMASKING ANONYMOUS USERS & JOHN DOE PROCEDURES

Follow a step-by-step process for identifying anonymous defendants through digital footprints and ISPs. Navigate Cable Privacy Act requirements and coordinate subpoenas across multiple platforms to manage data retention concerns and uncover identities hidden behind digital services.

Aaron MincAaron Minc
Michael PelagalliMichael Pelagalli
Aaron Minc

Aaron Minc

Minc Law

Michael Pelagalli

Michael Pelagalli

Minc Law

Aaron Minc

Aaron Minc

Minc Law

Aaron Minc is a nationally recognized leader in Internet defamation law who specializes in removing damaging content and uncovering anonymous user identities. For more than fifteen years, he has developed cutting-edge legal solutions for high-profile executives, celebrities, and global businesses facing intrusive online crises. His practice focuses on using strategic subpoenas and discovery to trace digital footprints across jurisdictions to restore client reputations.

Education & Credentials

Aaron Minc is a Board-Certified attorney in Ohio with more than fifteen years of experience at the technological forefront of Internet defamation law. He specializes in mastering digital subpoenas and uncovering key evidence hidden within social media platforms.

Recognition & Leadership

Aaron is a recognized authority frequently invited by national media to comment on online privacy and defamation issues. He actively trains business owners, professionals, and fellow attorneys on strategies for managing digital evidence and responding to online attacks.

Professional Involvement

He has developed cost-effective legal solutions for clients' most damaging online problems while providing peace of mind through resolution. His work involves removing thousands of false or damaging materials, ranging from social media posts to search results.

Experience

Aaron has successfully litigated more than 200 Internet defamation lawsuits across 22 states and 3 countries. His extensive record includes favorable jury verdicts, injunctions, and appellate victories achieved through deep online investigations and strategic discovery.
Michael Pelagalli

Michael Pelagalli

Minc Law

Michael Pelagalli is a Partner at Minc Law. He focuses his practice on protecting the reputations of individuals and businesses attacked online. He has represented large corporations, executives, medical professionals, small businesses, and individuals in a wide range of defamation matters, combining deep litigation and jury trial experience to remove defamatory content across the internet and establish monetary damages in courts across the country. As lead counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants, he handles all aspects of the litigation, trial, and appeals process, and has secured favorable jury verdicts, six-figure settlements, and injunctive and other equitable relief for his clients.

Education & Credentials

Michael received a Bachelor of Science from Miami University's Farmer School of Business and earned his J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where his moot court team were 2014–2015 Nationals Competition Region 6 Champions. He is admitted before the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and has been licensed in Ohio since 2015.

Recognition & Leadership

Michael has been recognized by Super Lawyers as an Ohio "Rising Star" from 2022 through 2025, an honor reserved for roughly 2.5% of attorneys in the state and named to Best Lawyers' "Ones to Watch in America" from 2024 through 2026. He became a Partner at Minc Law after building a proven track record in and out of the courtroom.

Professional Involvement

Michael presents regularly on internet reputation and litigation topics, including an on-demand CLE for myLawCLE on subpoenaing social media and phone records, a Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association program on the defamation cases against Alex Jones, and a Parma Bar Association program on the ethics and practice of handling online reputation issues. He has been featured on The Social Media Lawcast and in Crain's Cleveland Business and is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.

Experience

Michael identifies and unmasks anonymous authors of defamatory websites and reviews, obtains sixfigure judgments against them, and secures the deletion of false content from outlets including ESPN, Barstool Sports, Change.org, and major review platforms such as Google, Yelp, Ripoff Report, WebMD, and Vitals. He has reclaimed client domains through WIPO's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy and obtained the removal of unauthorized recordings and defamatory posts across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok.
Aaron Minc

Aaron Minc

Minc Law

Aaron Minc is a nationally recognized leader in Internet defamation law who specializes in removing damaging content and uncovering anonymous user identities. For more than fifteen years, he has developed cutting-edge legal solutions for high-profile executives, celebrities, and global businesses facing intrusive online crises. His practice focuses on using strategic subpoenas and discovery to trace digital footprints across jurisdictions to restore client reputations.

Education & Credentials

Aaron Minc is a Board-Certified attorney in Ohio with more than fifteen years of experience at the technological forefront of Internet defamation law. He specializes in mastering digital subpoenas and uncovering key evidence hidden within social media platforms.

Recognition & Leadership

Aaron is a recognized authority frequently invited by national media to comment on online privacy and defamation issues. He actively trains business owners, professionals, and fellow attorneys on strategies for managing digital evidence and responding to online attacks.

Professional Involvement

He has developed cost-effective legal solutions for clients' most damaging online problems while providing peace of mind through resolution. His work involves removing thousands of false or damaging materials, ranging from social media posts to search results.

Experience

Aaron has successfully litigated more than 200 Internet defamation lawsuits across 22 states and 3 countries. His extensive record includes favorable jury verdicts, injunctions, and appellate victories achieved through deep online investigations and strategic discovery.
Michael Pelagalli

Michael Pelagalli

Minc Law

Michael Pelagalli is a Partner at Minc Law. He focuses his practice on protecting the reputations of individuals and businesses attacked online. He has represented large corporations, executives, medical professionals, small businesses, and individuals in a wide range of defamation matters, combining deep litigation and jury trial experience to remove defamatory content across the internet and establish monetary damages in courts across the country. As lead counsel for both plaintiffs and defendants, he handles all aspects of the litigation, trial, and appeals process, and has secured favorable jury verdicts, six-figure settlements, and injunctive and other equitable relief for his clients.

Education & Credentials

Michael received a Bachelor of Science from Miami University's Farmer School of Business and earned his J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where his moot court team were 2014–2015 Nationals Competition Region 6 Champions. He is admitted before the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and has been licensed in Ohio since 2015.

Recognition & Leadership

Michael has been recognized by Super Lawyers as an Ohio "Rising Star" from 2022 through 2025, an honor reserved for roughly 2.5% of attorneys in the state and named to Best Lawyers' "Ones to Watch in America" from 2024 through 2026. He became a Partner at Minc Law after building a proven track record in and out of the courtroom.

Professional Involvement

Michael presents regularly on internet reputation and litigation topics, including an on-demand CLE for myLawCLE on subpoenaing social media and phone records, a Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association program on the defamation cases against Alex Jones, and a Parma Bar Association program on the ethics and practice of handling online reputation issues. He has been featured on The Social Media Lawcast and in Crain's Cleveland Business and is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.

Experience

Michael identifies and unmasks anonymous authors of defamatory websites and reviews, obtains sixfigure judgments against them, and secures the deletion of false content from outlets including ESPN, Barstool Sports, Change.org, and major review platforms such as Google, Yelp, Ripoff Report, WebMD, and Vitals. He has reclaimed client domains through WIPO's Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy and obtained the removal of unauthorized recordings and defamatory posts across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok.

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