According to a post on Internet Cases courts in Colorado allowed Walmart to issue a subpoena to Facebook, Myspace and Meetup.com for the profiles of several employees that were suing the retailing behemoth.

The case had to do with the employees who were injured on the job. They sued Walmart, their employer and Walmart sought the employees’ profiles on the various social networking sites. The employees tried to claim doctor/client privilege and loss of consortium but the court denied that motion and allowed Walmart to issue the subpoenas.

In reading author Evan Brown’s commentary, I was reminded of the Murphy v Perger decision here in Canada.