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
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
Key Insight: preservation of data for future discovery in class action.
Nature of Case: Violation of Telephone Consumer Protection Act
Electronic Data Involved: data or documents that may be relevant to a putative class action.
Keywords: preservation, class action, third-party preservation
Key Insight: whether discovery requests are overbroad
Nature of Case: Class Action alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
Electronic Data Involved: documents listing people requesting not to be called and people that were called incorrectly, and people who did not have contracts with teh Defendant.
Keywords: overbroad, discovery requests, protective order, motion to compel
Key Insight: whether giving compelling reason is necessary for the court to supplement an order to obey the law
Nature of Case: breach of contract
Electronic Data Involved: employment records and emails
Keywords: receivership estate, mass layoffs
Key Insight: Failure to produce discovery and making misrepresentations about the nature and content of documents so as to not produce them.
Nature of Case: trademark infringement
Electronic Data Involved: business documents, text messages, personal messages of employees.
Keywords: Compel, “chinese privacy law” misrepresentation,
Key Insight: was data not preserved and therefore lost in bad faith?
Nature of Case: breach of contract, tortious business interference, unfair competition, trade secrets law, etc
Electronic Data Involved: Business documents, information about business strategy, clients and products.
Keywords: preservation, bad faith, destroyed data.
Key Insight: Court granted motion for preservation order as to relevant audio and video recordings reasoning that a court ?may grant a preservation order if a party can demonstrate that the evidence is in some danger of being destroyed absent court intervention? and that in light of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision retention policy such an order was appropriate to ensure preservation through the pendency of the case
Electronic Data Involved: Audio and video recordings
Key Insight: necessity of preservation order
Nature of Case: misappropriation of trade secrets
Electronic Data Involved: laptop, mobile phone, email
Keywords: email providers, deleted emails, significant concerns, threats to preservation, capability to preserve, irreparable harm, ex parte, seizure order, expedited discovery
Key Insight: whether billing temporary contract attorneys at the firm’s standard rates is excessive to award attorney fees
Nature of Case: Securities action
Electronic Data Involved: n/a
Keywords: attorney fees, lodestar, temporary associates
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