One River Place Condo Assoc., Inc. v. Axis Surplus Ins. Co., 2010 WL 235028 (E.D. La. Jan. 14, 2010)

Key Insight: Addressing the question of whether document imaging costs were recoverable under 28 USC ? 1920, court noted that ?[t]oday?s technologies allow counsel to exchange ?copies? of [documents for use in the case] electronically, reducing time and cost? and that there was no indication that electronic production was more expensive or duplicative of hard copy costs, and held that it ?would not punish [plaintiff] for choosing the more efficient, electronic method of producing costs? and that plaintiff?s document imaging costs were therefore recoverable under the statute

Nature of Case: Claims arising from property damage resulting from Hurrican Katrina

Electronic Data Involved: ESI