Key Insight: Inconvenient is not unreasonable or burdensome wrt e-discovery
Nature of Case: Employment discrimination
Electronic Data Involved: Emails
Keywords: smoking gun,
Key Insight: Defendant claimed reviewing 363,000 emails would be unduly burdensome. Court rules that even the expected responsiveness rate of between 8.3% and 15% meant it would be valuable. Court required defendant to review the emails and denied cost shifting requested by defendant.
Nature of Case: Employment Discrimination
Electronic Data Involved: Email
Keywords: burdensome, responsiveness, proportionality
Key Insight: spoliation sanctions
Nature of Case: general/professional liability
Electronic Data Involved: handwritten notes
Keywords: spoliation, two-factor test, institutional notice, relevance, adverse inference
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