Catagory:Case Summaries

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Shotwell, et al. v. Zillow Group Inc., et al. (Western Washington, 2019)
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United States v. Holmes, et al (N.D. Cal., 2019)
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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc. et al. (District of Delaware, 2019)
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United States v. Hoang, No. 2:17-cr-0444-TC (District of Utah, Central Division, 2019)
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United States v. Norris (9th Circuit, 2019)
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In re: Search Warrant Issued June 13, 2019 (4th Circuit, 2019)
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Lawson v. Love?s Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc., No. 1:17-CV-1266 (M.D. Pa. Oct. 31, 2019)
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Schmidt v. Shifflett, 1:18-cv-00663-KBM-LF (D.N.M. Aug. 6, 2019).
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Guardiola v. Adams Cty. School District No. 14 et al. (D.Col., 2019)
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Montoya v. Loya Insurance Company (District of New Mexico, 2019)

Shotwell, et al. v. Zillow Group Inc., et al. (Western Washington, 2019)

Key Insight: detailed stipulation of the discovery plan

Nature of Case: violation of the securities exchange act

Electronic Data Involved: all relevant discovery

Keywords: stipulation, discovery plan

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Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. v. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Inc. et al. (District of Delaware, 2019)

Key Insight: public interest in court pleadings, discovery motions shouldn’t be redacted

Nature of Case: patent infringement

Electronic Data Involved: discovery pleadings

Keywords: sealing judicial record, discovery pleadings, burden to show disclosure would cause injury

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United States v. Hoang, No. 2:17-cr-0444-TC (District of Utah, Central Division, 2019)

Key Insight: Request for email accounts at Comcast and Google

Nature of Case: Trade Secret Theft

Electronic Data Involved: archived e-mail, file backups, electronic files

Keywords: no privacy interest in [another person?s] email account, even if some of [defendant?s] emails were discovered there.

United States v. Norris (9th Circuit, 2019)

Key Insight: Whether accessing a person’s information through an IP address being wired through an outside router is a violation of the 4 amendment

Nature of Case: criminal – possession and distribution of child pornography

Electronic Data Involved: IP address and location

Keywords: search and seizure, IP address, wireless router, subjective expectation of privacy

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In re: Search Warrant Issued June 13, 2019 (4th Circuit, 2019)

Key Insight: whether the government can create a filter team to go through documents that may be privileged

Nature of Case: money laundering and obstruction of a federal investigation

Electronic Data Involved: documents seized from a law firm that is subject to attorney client privilege

Keywords: filter team, attorney client privilege, work product, search warrant.

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Lawson v. Love?s Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc., No. 1:17-CV-1266 (M.D. Pa. Oct. 31, 2019)

Key Insight: Request for text message production by Plaintiffs was considered too broad, but court allowed for modification to more narrowly tailored request.

Nature of Case: Fair Labor Standards Act

Electronic Data Involved: text messages

Keywords: Texts; proportionality

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Schmidt v. Shifflett, 1:18-cv-00663-KBM-LF (D.N.M. Aug. 6, 2019).

Key Insight: Severe sanctions will not be granted where bad faith cannot be proved and no prejudice.

Nature of Case: Automobile collision.

Electronic Data Involved: Mobile phone data.

Keywords: intentional destruction, adverse inference

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Montoya v. Loya Insurance Company (District of New Mexico, 2019)

Key Insight: is it spoliation for an insurance company to destroy a recorded statement of the accident when the loss of the information is minimally prejudicial

Nature of Case: insurance bad faith

Electronic Data Involved: Audio Recordings, recorded statement

Keywords: recorded statement, prejudice, spoliation

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