Bow Tie Law

A Three Page Order Hitting De-Duplication & Litigation Holds

From the plains of Kansas comes another short and powerful order by Magistrate Judge David Waxse.  On Constitution Day, Judge Waxse was very busy in White v. Graceland College Ctr. for Prof’l Dev. & Lifelong Learning, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85849 (D. Kan. Sept. 18, 2009).  For an earlier[…]

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The Plumbing of a Motion to Compel

In a product defect case about brass plumbing fittings, the Defendants fought a motion to compel electronically stored information relevant to class certification, because of undue burden and cost.  They lost…in large part. In re Zurn Pex Plumbing Prods. Liab. Litig., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47636, 1 (D. Minn. June[…]

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The e-Discovery Chase: Strategies to Reduce Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Requests

All of our tools and toys that generate electronically stored information can frustrate law firms with high e-Discovery costs.  Lawyers who choose to have their discovery productions printed can have nearly 10,000 times more paper than 10 years ago.[1] It is difficult to visualize how “big” ESI can be. WIRED[…]

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