Key Insight: A rule 45 motion to quash subpoenas on electronic subpoenas for electronic identities of anonymous users uses the 2themart.com test and are very fact specific
Nature of Case: Defamation
Electronic Data Involved: User account information
Keywords: Murder, twitter, first amendment, motion to quash, subpoena, defamation
Key Insight: A responding party is best suited to determine the method of review and using TAR to pre-cull documents from review is an acceptable methodology
Nature of Case: Hiring discrimination
Electronic Data Involved: Emails
Keywords: Chicago, fire department, technology assisted review, TAR
Key Insight: defendant argued that it had no obligation to respond to timely discovery requests because the due date of the discovery was after the discovery deadline.
Nature of Case: telemarketing violation
Electronic Data Involved: requests for admission
Keywords: discovery deadline, requests for admission
Key Insight: Defendants here have not described any harm that would result from producing the guidelines and have not sought a protective order, the Court declines to find the documents so confidential that they cannot be produced
Nature of Case: bad faith and fraudulent banking
Electronic Data Involved: general discovery responses, voicemails, loan documents, loan history, and communications
Keywords: fraud, trade secrets, incomplete responses, bad faith
Key Insight: argue that those requests and subpoenas are overly broad
Nature of Case: Motor vehicle accident negligence, personal injury
Electronic Data Involved: medical bills, records, and data for treatment received over a year before incident pertaining to rate of reimbursement
Keywords: subpoena, provider billing structure, medical billing and records, overly broad and burdensome
Key Insight: Plaintiff was made aware that he had to preserve his phone records and text records and than failed to do so
Nature of Case: personal injury and liability
Electronic Data Involved: plaintiff’s cell phone and text messages
Keywords: spoliation, text messages, phone records, cell phone, preservation
Key Insight: discovery requests overbroad
Nature of Case: telephone consumer protection act
Electronic Data Involved: general discovery
Keywords: scope of relevant discovery, class action
Key Insight: if a motion to deny a class certification can be granted before discovery
Nature of Case: telemarketing, telephone consumer protection act
Electronic Data Involved: discovery showing common questions for a class certification
Keywords: class certification, rule 23
Key Insight: withholding discovery on the basis that forensic imaging isn’t under the scope
Nature of Case: trade secrets, unfair trade practices, unfair competition
Electronic Data Involved: Defendant’s laptop and associated harddrives
Keywords: scrubbed metadata, forensic imaging, hard drives, scope of discovery, bad faith litigation
Key Insight: whether government had to turn over documents from agencies not part of DOJ
Nature of Case: wire fraud and conspiracy re Theranos
Electronic Data Involved: documents
Keywords: agency documents, Theranos,
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