Catagory:Case Summaries

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Davis v. Crescent Electric Company et al. (D. S.D., 2016)
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Reyes et al. v. Julia Place Condominiums Homeowners Association, Inc., et al. (E.D. La., 2016)
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Court Finds “Rather Broad” Request to be Proportional Upon Factor-by-Factor Analysis
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Washington v. United Air Lines, Inc., No. 15-cv-00471-VC (N.D. Cal. Oct. 4, 2016)
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Carter v. Cummings – 201610mary (Western District of Wisconsin, 2016)
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Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. (ND Cal, 2016)
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No Sanctions for Deletion where Files were Recoverable or Duplicated Elsewhere
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Coles Wexford Hotel, Inc. v. Highmark, Inc., No. 10-1609 (W.D. Pa. Sept. 20, 2016)
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In re Bard IVC Filters Products Liability Litigation (District of Arizona, 2016)
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Court Shifts Costs to Discover Emails from Backup Tapes

Davis v. Crescent Electric Company et al. (D. S.D., 2016)

Key Insight: NDA adequately protects confidential and/or privileged information during forensic examination

Nature of Case: employment discrimination

Electronic Data Involved: email

Keywords: forensic examination

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Court Finds “Rather Broad” Request to be Proportional Upon Factor-by-Factor Analysis

First Niagara Risk Mgmt., Inc. v. Folino, —F.R.D.—, 2016 WL 4247654 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 11, 2016)

In this case, the court addressed the parties’ disagreement regarding a proper scope of discovery and Plaintiff’s related motion to compel the search of Defendant’s electronic devices, to be conducted by an independent e-Discovery vendor utilizing search terms proposed by the plaintiff.  Upon finding the requested information relevant and following consideration of each of the proportionality factors identified in recently amended Rule 26(b)(1), the court granted Plaintiff’s motion to compel.

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Washington v. United Air Lines, Inc., No. 15-cv-00471-VC (N.D. Cal. Oct. 4, 2016)

Key Insight: Sanctions for delays caused by bad faith reliance on a vendor for a small production.

Nature of Case: discovery delays

Electronic Data Involved: archived e-mail

Keywords: discovery delay, discovery vendor, small production, bad faith

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Carter v. Cummings – 201610mary (Western District of Wisconsin, 2016)

Key Insight: If a party claims no responsive documents are found, they must provide a response that indicates the steps taken to determine that no responsive documents exist

Nature of Case: Prisoner self harm

Electronic Data Involved: E-mails

Keywords: Prisoner, self harm, pro se,

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Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc. (ND Cal, 2016)

Key Insight: Oracle’s lawyers did not read the ESI produced to them, and instead accused Google of withholding critical evidence (that had been produced).

Nature of Case: Copyright infringement.

Electronic Data Involved: ESI produced by Google.

Keywords: This case shows the critical importance of electronic document review. Discovery-concealment misconduct.

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No Sanctions for Deletion where Files were Recoverable or Duplicated Elsewhere

Erhart v. Bofl Holding, Inc., No. 15-cv-02287-BAS(NLS), 2016 WL 5110453 (S.D. Cal. Sept. 21, 2016)

In this case, the court declined to impose spoliation sanctions for Plaintiff’s deletion of ESI from numerous electronic devices where the majority of the information at issue could be recovered or was duplicated in another location (including the defendant’s systems) and thus was not “destroyed,” and where the prejudice resulting from the few files that could not be recovered was minimal.

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Coles Wexford Hotel, Inc. v. Highmark, Inc., No. 10-1609 (W.D. Pa. Sept. 20, 2016)

Key Insight: The special master considered relevancy to be as broad as the subject matter, which is broader than the scope of discovery contemplated by Rule 26… did not satisfy its burden to show that the information it requests from Highmark is relevant, the court is not required to analyze whether that request is proportional to this case

Nature of Case: Antitrust

Keywords: Reasonably Calculated

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In re Bard IVC Filters Products Liability Litigation (District of Arizona, 2016)

Key Insight: proportionality with regards to relevancy

Nature of Case: Products Liability

Electronic Data Involved: Communications between foreign entities that sell the product and foreign regulatory bodies regarding the products

Keywords: Proportionality, marginally relevant, relevancy

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Court Shifts Costs to Discover Emails from Backup Tapes

Elkharwily v. Franciscan Health Sys., No. 3:15-cv-05579-RJB, 2016 WL 4061575 (W.D. Wash. July 29, 2016)

In this case, Defendant successfully established that retrieving archived emails from disaster recovery backup tapes “would result in an undue burden and cost” pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(2)(B).  Although Plaintiff was unable to establish good cause to compel production, the court indicated that the archived emails were nonetheless “‘discoverable’ under Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1)” and ordered that “upon a request by Plaintiff, Defendant should facilitate access to the discovery” but that Plaintiff would bear the expense, payable in advance.

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