United Nat?l Maint., Inc. v. Sand Diego Convention Ctr. Corp. Inc., No. 07cv2172 AJB-JMA, 2013 WL 30566 (S.D. Cal. Jan. 2, 2013)

Key Insight: Court declined to allow recovery of costs related to the copying and maintenance of emails within an electronic database where the party seeking recovery voluntarily assumed the costs to avoid the need to review voluminous hard copy and where the copies were not obtained ?for use in the case? as evidenced by the petitioner?s reliance on only a very small portion of ESI as exhibits in this case

Electronic Data Involved: Taxable costs related to storage of emails, ESI