July 2015 – Electronic Discovery Law

In Case You Missed It! Discovery of Social Media: Legal and Practical Considerations

Jul 28 2015

Presenters: Desiree F. Moore, Daniel R. Miller, Ivan L. Ascott, & Bree Kelly

On July 16, 2015, a panel of attorneys from K&L Gates presented a webinar discussion addressing the discoverability and admissibility of social media content. Topics discussed included:

the discoverability standards applied by courts with regard to social media content;
the likely effects of the anticipated amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on such standards;
the relevance of the federal Stored Communications Act to discovery of information on social media;
the issues involved in preserving, collecting, searching, reviewing, and producing information from social media; and
the considerations pertinent to admission of social media content as evidence.

To download the presentation slides or to view and listen to the webinar, click here.

Noting Reliance Solely on Cost of Discovery, Court Rejects Proportionality Objection

Jul 21 2015

Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. v. Premium Beef Feeders, LLC, No. 13-cv-1168-EFM-TJJ, 2015 WL 3937410 (D. Kan. June 26, 2015)

In this case the court addressed Defendants’ motion to compel and Plaintiff’s objection to discovery based on proportionality. Concluding that Plaintiff failed to adequately establish the alleged burden of the requested discovery, the court granted the motion to compel.

Satellite Image Labeled with Automatically Generated “Tack” and GPS Coordinates Not Hearsay

Jul 02 2015

United States v. Lizarraga-Tirado, —F.3d—, 2015 WL 3772772 (9th Cir. June 18, 2015)

“Are a Google Earth satellite image and a digital ‘tack’ labeled with GPS coordinates hearsay?” In this case, the Ninth Circuit answered “no.”

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