When Are Text Messages Admissible? The Pennsylvania Superior Court Explains.  In today’s electronic age where text messages, instant messages and e-mails have, to a large degree, supplanted traditional written correspondence, courts are increasingly called upon to apply longstanding evidentiary rules to society’s newer methods of communication. A recent opinion, however, from the Pennsylvania Superior Court, Commonwealth [...]

This is the leading case regarding how to admit electronically stored information (ESI) into evidence. To admit ESI into evidence, certain rules of evidence must be followed.