Key Insight: By not timely objecting to producing metadata and producing PDFs, party was ordered to reproduce files in native format as objection was waived
Nature of Case: Construction contract
Electronic Data Involved: Electronic documents (construction records)
Keywords: Native, construction, metadata
Key Insight: Whether insufficient care with selection of search terms, which resulted in the withholding of relevant emails amounts to spoilation
Nature of Case: bankruptcy
Electronic Data Involved: emails
Keywords: insufficient care, search terms, spoilation
Key Insight: Should a party conduct a relevance review before returning requested discovery to the opposing side?
Nature of Case: Copyright
Electronic Data Involved: e-mails
Keywords: relevancy review, ESI, search terms
Key Insight: Converting native documents to a specified type not objected to in an earlier order is not overly burdensome
Nature of Case: Corn litigation
Electronic Data Involved: Electronic documents
Keywords: Corn, TIFF, native format, bates stamping
Key Insight: cost-shifting, proportionality
Nature of Case: Title IX violation
Electronic Data Involved: computer, cell phone, text messages
Keywords: privacy interests, forensic examination, attorney’s fees and costs, inconsistent testimony
Key Insight: scope of search term requests
Nature of Case: patent infringement
Electronic Data Involved: email, search terms
Keywords: overbreadth objection, four requests
Key Insight: forensic examination should be ?the exception, not the rule.?
Nature of Case: employment, FMLA
Electronic Data Involved: text messages, deleted messages, lost devices, forensic examination
Keywords: social media, text messages, forensic examination, FMLA
Key Insight: self-incrimination through possession of documents
Nature of Case: Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
Electronic Data Involved: text messages, call logs
Keywords: Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), non-party agents, Fifth Amendment Rights, self-incrimination, 47 U.S.C. 227
Key Insight: scope of discovery of magistrate’s motion to compel
Nature of Case: Title VII gender discrimination, class action
Electronic Data Involved: electronic documents
Keywords: class action, relevance, gender discrimination, advisory committee notes
Key Insight: compliance with Rule 45 subpoena
Nature of Case: consumer protection/unfair competition
Electronic Data Involved: electronic documents
Keywords: 45(d)(3), relevancy, unretained expert information, confidential research, commercial information, cost-shifting, third party
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