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Scanning Paper Makes the Production ESI And Not a Document

April 17, 2014 Josh Gilliland Electronically Stored Information, ESI, Form of Production, Reasonably Useable Form, Request for Production

Anderson Living Trust v. WPX Energy Prod., LLC, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31025, 3-4 (D.N.M. Mar. 6, 2014), is a detailed review of production requirements under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 34(b)(2)(E). The crux of the case centered on whether scanning paper documents to PDF’s made the discovery “electronically[…]

Don’t Forget to Produce Email Attachments

February 12, 2014 Josh Gilliland eDiscovery, Email, Form of Production

Thank You Litigation World! This article won the LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award. The editors of LitigationWorld, a free weekly email newsletter for litigators and others who work in litigation, give this award to one article every week that they feel is a must-read for this audience. A defendant[…]

Don’t Forget to Produce Email Attachments

February 12, 2014 Josh Gilliland e-Discovery, Form of Production

Please Don’t Bates Stamp eDiscovery

February 19, 2013 Josh Gilliland e-Discovery, ESI, Form of Production, TIFF

This case is my eDiscovery nightmare. Worse than a clown with snakes. Let’s review what happened. The case involved numerous allegations of discovery wrongdoing against the Plaintiff. The Defendants brought a motion for “discovery abuses intended to harass defendants, cause unnecessary delay, and needlessly increase the cost of litigation.” The[…]

Check Please: Challenging a PDF Form of Production

April 15, 2009 Josh Gilliland Discovery, e-Discovery, Form of Production, Request for Production

Rahman v. Smith & Wollensky Rest. Group, Inc., is an employment discrimination case where the Defendants produced guest checks from a database in PDF format on CD-ROM, in three-year batches, with a unique index number identifying each check. Rahman v. Smith & Wollensky Rest. Group, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS[…]