Knotty Issues of eDiscovery
In an age discrimination suit, a Plaintiff’s motion to compel discovery was denied by a Magistrate Judge on the grounds the requests were overboard. The Plaintiff challenged Magistrate’s order. The District Court found the requests were also overboard. Doubt v. NCR Corp., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 95518, 11-12 (N.D. Cal.[…]
Read moreFacebook sued Named and Unnamed Defendants for trademark infringement. The Plaintiff sought expedited discovery from the Named Defendants to identify the Unnamed Defendants in support of later filing a motion for a preliminary injunction. Facebook, Inc. v. Various, Inc., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64539, 6-9 (N.D. Cal. June 16, 2011).[…]
Read moreA Plaintiff in an age discrimination case requested ESI be produced in native format. Linnebur v. United Tel. Ass’n, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88456 (D. Kan. Aug. 10, 2011). The Defendants did not assert any objections, but produced the responsive ESI as PDF’s. Linnebur, at 3. The ESI at issue[…]
Read moreMy friend Charlie Kaupp at Digital Strata brought the following issue to me: There is an increasingly prevalent amount of Apple ESI found in corporate environments, especially among executives, engineering, and marketing groups. Most review platforms do not handle large portions of Apple ESI, including: Mac email (Entourage, Outlook 2011,[…]
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Two fishing boats voyaged into the ocean of e-Discovery when the Plaintiff learned of digital photos and video of a collision that was not produced in discovery. May v. F/V LORENA MARIE, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52695, (D. Alaska May 16, 2011). The discovery dispute surfaced like a carb pot[…]
Read moreA Plaintiff sought the forensic image of a laptop after the producing party collected the responsive data and placed it on a thumb drive. Magistrate Judge Nuffer denied the motion. Hansen v. Chevron USA, Inc., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58488 (D. Utah May 31, 2011). In the course of discovery,[…]
Read moreThe Plaintiffs filed a suit alleging copyright infringement against the online proprietors of Korean pop music website where the Defendants “post, organize, search for, identify, collect and index links to infringing material that is available on third-party websites,” which the Plaintiff claimed was a “a one-stop shop for infringing material.”[…]
Read moreGo “On the Record” with the Santa Clara County Bar Association Civil Practice Committee’s new expert deposition seminar on June 22 at 6:00pm. To register, click here. “On the Record” is a seminar with Judge Gregory Ward (retired), author of California Objections (James Publishing). After the brief introductory material by[…]
Read moreHow many times can a litigant ignore his discovery obligations before his misconduct catches up with him? The plaintiffs in this case failed to produce documents in response to a discovery request. Then they proceeded to violate not one but two judicial orders compelling production of the requested materials. After[…]
Read moreThe Defendant in Quality Inv. Props. Santa Clara, LLC v. Serrano Elec., Inc., brought a motion to compel the Plaintiff to “organize, index and label” their production of electronically stored information. Quality Inv. Props. Santa Clara, LLC v. Serrano Elec., Inc., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41006, 1-2 (N.D. Cal. Apr.[…]
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