Gates Rubber Company v. Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd., et al.167 F.R.D. 90 (D.C. Col. 1996), U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12423; a copy of the final opinion by U.S. Magistrate Judge O. E. Schlatter of May 1, 1996 is available as pdf. Document at Harvard Law (accessed 24.02.2015) is a decision by the U.S. district court for the District of Colorado from May 1, 1996. It is considered a landmark decisionSee Fred Chris Smith & Erin E. Kenneally in John J. Barbara (Ed.) Handbook of Digital and Multimedia Forensic Evidence (2008 Humana Press) p 105) in terms of expert witness court testimony in questions of electronic evidenceIn most cases dealing with computer evidence, the term "electronic" may be more suitable than "digital". Although both are often used synonymously, their semantic content is different (for further details see Burkhard Schäfer & Stephen Mason in Stephen Mason et al. (eds.) The Characteristics of Electronic Evidence (Butterworth 2010), pp. 21–50). and digital forensics.
