E-Mail Messages, Their Content, and Metadata Can Provide Useful Evidence

question 58

Multiple Choice

E-mail messages, their content, and metadata can provide useful evidence in a lawsuit because

• A) they can establish a timeline of who knew what and when.
• B) people tend to converse freely and informally in e-mail messages, which may provide a "smoking gun."
• C) they can be used to trace a message to its true originator.
• D) All of these choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Full Faith

A clause in the U.S. Constitution (Full Faith and Credit Clause) requiring each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.

Tenth Amendment

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution stating that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Federal Government

The national government of the United States, composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.

Lower-Level Governments

Administrative divisions within a country that operate below the level of the central government, such as states or provinces.