Knotty Issues of eDiscovery
In a products liability case, the Plaintiffs claimed they could not tell if the Defendants produced electronically stored information in the form it was ordinarily maintained. In re Bisphenol a Polycarbonate Plastic Prods. Liab. Litig., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52444 (W.D. Mo. May 26, 2010). Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 34(b)(2)(E) states[…]
Read moreGuidance Software hosted another amazing Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference (CEIC). This was my fifth CEIC and I believe the best I have attended. My personal favorite conferences are CEIC and the Paraben Forensic Innovation Conferencec. For those interested in the interaction between data collection to e-Discovery, both are must[…]
Read moreOne thing never goes out of fashion in e-Discovery: The Meet & Confer over search terms. In Ross v. Abercrombie & Fitch Co., the Plaintiff brought a motion to compel missing electronically stored information. Ross v. Abercrombie & Fitch Co., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47620 (S.D. Ohio May 14, 2010). […]
Read moreThe personal computer is an eternal icon of the 1980s. However, few might suspect there is litigation currently pending dating back to the era of Reagan, Yuppies and Apple’s 1984 Orwellian Super Bowl commercial. [Youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/OYecfV3ubP8&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] Floppy Disks: e-Discovery Echoes Phillip M. Adams & Assocs. v. V., is the continuing story of[…]
Read moreA wife was convicted of simple assault on her husband. Text messages were used in her conviction to show her state of mind. The Defendant appealed her conviction, claiming the text messages from her phone, the victim’s phone and a photo exhibit of a text message were improperly admitted on[…]
Read moreLegend says in 2005, litigation began over cell phone towers and “monopoles.” Discovery was extensive. Summary judgment motions were lost and won. Time had past. And then, what was lost was then found. When You Find the Ark of the e-Discovery Covenant A custodian’s computer was found in September 2008[…]
Read moreEvents can be announced on a social networking site with a few clicks of a keyboard. What happens when people attending an event announced on a social networking site get attacked by other event attendees? In Melton v. Boustred, the Defendant announced on MySpace he would hold a party at[…]
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In the epic legal battle over patents and floppy disk controller defects dating back to the 1980s and 1990s, the Defendants brought a motion to compel the Plaintiff, who was an employee of his own company, who did not regularly testify as an expert on the company’s behalf, to prepare[…]
Read moreSocial networking websites can be a source of litigation and Human Resources nightmares. These sites can also blur the lines between one’s personal and professional life. In Marshall v. Mayor of Savannah a probationary female firefighter was first reprimanded and then fired for her conduct during the reprimand originating from her MySpace photos. Marshall[…]
Read moreSeger v. Ernest-Spencer Metals is the story of an industrial accident where the Plaintiff suffered serious bodily injury. In the ensuing discovery battle, the Producing Party claimed the electronically stored information was from sources that were not reasonably accessible due to undue burden. Seger v. Ernest-Spencer Metals, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS[…]
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