Archive - 2017

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Procaps S.A. v. Pantheon Inc., 12-24256-CIV-GOODMAN, 2014 .S. Dist (S.D. Fla. Aug. 17, 2017).
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Supervision Trumps Speculation: Court Denies Motion to Compel Additional Search
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New Mexico Oncology and Hematology Consultants, LTD. v. Presbyterian Healthcare Services, et al., No. 1:12-cv-00526-MV-GBW (D. N.M. Aug. 16, 2017)
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Rivera v. Mathena (Western District Virginia, Roanoke Division, 2017)
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hiQ Labs Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation (ND California, 2017)
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Hallmark Insurance Company v. Maxum Casualty Insurance Company, 6:16-cv-2063-Orl-37GJK (Florida, Middle District, 2017)
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Young v. Act Fast Delivery of West Virginia, Inc. (S.D.W. Va. , 2017)
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Congoo, LLC v. Revcontent LLC, et al., No. 16-401 (MAS) (D.N.J. Aug. 10, 2017). )
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Rabin v. Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP (N.D. Cal., 2017)
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“Reckless” Production, Inadequate Clawback Agreement Result in Waiver of Privilege

Supervision Trumps Speculation: Court Denies Motion to Compel Additional Search

Mirmina v. Genpact LLC, No. 3:16CV00614, 2017 WL 3189027 (D. Conn. July 27, 2017)

In this case, Plaintiff sought to compel Defendant to conduct an additional search for ESI.  Plaintiff asserted that he was “concerned” that responsive communications were withheld from production and argued “in essence, that defendant’s search for ESI was insufficient because counsel relied upon an employee directly involved in the underlying claims of the suit to search her own emails for responsive documents.” Defendant opposed the motion and argued that Plaintiff’s concerns were “unfounded because the search for responsive records was coordinated and overseen by counsel.”  In support of that position, Defendant’s in-house counsel provided an affidavit outlining the approach:

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New Mexico Oncology and Hematology Consultants, LTD. v. Presbyterian Healthcare Services, et al., No. 1:12-cv-00526-MV-GBW (D. N.M. Aug. 16, 2017)

Key Insight: Severe sanctions require intent and actual loss of evidence,

Nature of Case: Antitrust

Electronic Data Involved: E-mails

Keywords: email jail, litigation hold, transport dumpster,

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hiQ Labs Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation (ND California, 2017)

Key Insight: if use of publicly available information provided by a source for profit can be restricted by the source of the information

Nature of Case: violation of computer fraud and abuse act.

Electronic Data Involved: publicly available information available on websites like linkedin

Keywords: public interest, publicly available data, preliminary injunction

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Hallmark Insurance Company v. Maxum Casualty Insurance Company, 6:16-cv-2063-Orl-37GJK (Florida, Middle District, 2017)

Key Insight: work product protection does not apply to investigation or handling of underlying claim in a bad faith case.

Nature of Case: bad faith insurance claim

Electronic Data Involved: Insurance claim file including work product and possibly privileged documents

Keywords: work product, underlying claim, investigation, bad faith, privilege log

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Young v. Act Fast Delivery of West Virginia, Inc. (S.D.W. Va. , 2017)

Key Insight: Failure to fully respond to discovery requests, inability to ensure the production was responsive to discovery requests

Nature of Case: wage-and-hour

Electronic Data Involved: electronic records

Keywords: false representation, attorneys’ fees, egregious

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Congoo, LLC v. Revcontent LLC, et al., No. 16-401 (MAS) (D.N.J. Aug. 10, 2017). )

Key Insight: Source code

Nature of Case: False and Misleading representation in Advertising, Unfair competition at Common Law, Violation Of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act

Electronic Data Involved: Motion to Compel the Production of Source code

Keywords: Production of Cource Code

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Rabin v. Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP (N.D. Cal., 2017)

Key Insight: The court allowed a party to use a rolling basis ESI, and ruled that with the assistance of TAR, a few thousand documents could be reviewed in the next few weeks.

Nature of Case: Workplace discrimination (age)

Electronic Data Involved: Business documents/files

Keywords: Predictive coding, TAR, Technology assisted review,

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“Reckless” Production, Inadequate Clawback Agreement Result in Waiver of Privilege

Irth Sols. LLC v. Windstream Commc’ns LLC, No. 2:16-CV-219, 2017 WL 3276021 (S.D. Ohio Aug. 2, 2017)

In this case, despite the existence of a clawback agreement (not an order) indicating that “[i]nadvertent production of privileged documents does not operate as a waiver of that privilege,” the court found that privilege was waived by the inadvertent but “completely reckless” production of privileged materials … twice. In so concluding, the court rejected the notion that a clawback agreement always protects against waiver, regardless of its terms, and instead indicated its support for courts that have precluded protection from a clawback agreement when the disclosure was “completely reckless” and for a framework that allows a court to rely on Fed. R. Evid. 502(b) when a clawback agreement fails to provide sufficiently concrete terms.

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