Key Insight: requiring creation of new documents, proportionality
Nature of Case: breach of contract
Electronic Data Involved: electronic records
Keywords: timeliness, relevance, raw data, create, creation of documents, cost-shifting, preclusion order
Identified Local Court Rule(s): Loc. Civ. R. 37.1
Key Insight: Defendant’s production was held to be inadequate due to only producing 1k out of tens of thousands, and not providing a signed verification that the production was full and complete.
Nature of Case: Contract
Electronic Data Involved: financial records, documents
Keywords: inadequate production, signed verification, trade secrets
Key Insight: Preservation
Nature of Case: Civil rights /Sec. 1983
Electronic Data Involved: ESI; Video
Keywords: Inmate; Excessive force; Preservation;
Key Insight: Defendant incurred costs that were “reasonable and necessary to the litigation” via a “time consuming process”, and thus were awarded the costs from the opposing party.
Nature of Case: Violation of the Credit Card Act, class action
Electronic Data Involved: Wide range of documents
Keywords: Predictive coding, seed set, “reasonable and necessary”, Predictive coding cost
Key Insight: Spoliation of text messages, negligent spoliation, analysis under FRCP 37(e)
Nature of Case: Employment, wrongful termination, retaliation
Electronic Data Involved: Text messages
Keywords: Litigation hold, spoliation, text messages, 37(e), jury instruction,
Key Insight: sanctions for incorrect data
Nature of Case: patent infringement
Electronic Data Involved: testing data
Keywords: monetary sanctions, attorneys’ fees, prompt disclosure, inaccurate data
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
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: Inconvenient is not unreasonable or burdensome wrt e-discovery
Nature of Case: Employment discrimination
Electronic Data Involved: Emails
Keywords: smoking gun,
Key Insight: Forensic examination must be proportional to the information it can exclusively gain, including privacy concerns
Nature of Case: Telephone Consumer Protection Act (Class Action)
Electronic Data Involved: Text messages
Keywords: Text messages, imaging, forensic, proportionality
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