Knotty Issues of eDiscovery
Can a party successfully bring a cost-shifting motion if they have stored electronically stored information as non-searchable pictorial images in a proprietary software? Listen to my podcast on Hawa v. Coatesville Area Sch. Dist., 2017 U.S. Dis. LEXIS 37675 (E.D. Pa., March 16, 2017) for analysis of this issue and[…]
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Can a producing party argue for cost-shifting to the defendant based on proportionality for the production of work-related emails on a plaintiff’s gmail account? Owens v. Clear Wireless LLC, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26698, 4-6 (D. Minn. Mar. 3, 2014). Short answer is no, because the emails are not inaccessible[…]
Read moreIn a patent dispute, the parties agreed to use a online review platform for the production of email and to share the costs. The prevailing party in the lawsuit won on having their hosting costs of $234,702.43 shifted to the opposing party. The losing party appealed and the Court of[…]
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