In re Netbank Sec. Litig., 2009 WL 2461036 (N.D.Ga. Aug. 7, 2009)

Key Insight: Court ordered production of ESI in native format, despite defendants? objections that such production was not required by the federal rules, allowed for the alteration of documents, and prevented bates labeling, among other reasons, where defendants? problems were deemed ?hypothetical? and where plaintiff ?definitively stated? that the provision of TIFF documents both made the review more expensive and served to conceal metadata

Nature of Case: Class action securities litigation

Electronic Data Involved: ESI