Specht v. Google, Inc., No. 09 C 2572, 2011 WL 2565666 (N.D. Ill. June 27, 2011)

Key Insight: Acknowledging that expenses related to imaging and creating electronic versions of documents are taxable when the parties have agreed to produce documents electronically, the court denied defendant?s request for recovery of such funds absent evidence that the parties agreed to electronic production; court denied recovery of expenditure for converting plaintiff?s QuickBooks database into a usable format because such costs are not recoverable

Electronic Data Involved: ESI, QuickBooks database