Key Insight: relevance of search terms, proportionality
Nature of Case: breach of contract, trade secrets
Keywords: sanctions, motion to compel, search terms, third-party subpoenas, personal capacity, proportionality, attorney’s fees, current version, pending motion for protective order
Key Insight: motion to compel supplemental discovery responses
Nature of Case: copyright infringement suit
Electronic Data Involved: “documents” “financial documents” “going back 30 years”
Keywords: waived privilege, clearly erroneous, motion to compel
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: Inconvenient is not unreasonable or burdensome wrt e-discovery
Nature of Case: Employment discrimination
Electronic Data Involved: Emails
Keywords: smoking gun,
Key Insight: “Tweets” and Presidential Memo indicate there are individuals with discoverable information
Nature of Case: Injunctive Relief
Electronic Data Involved: Twitter “Tweets”
Keywords: Twitter, discoverable information, disclosure
Key Insight: Routine deletion of emails/lack of archival service leads to sanctions, but may not be considered intentionally depriving opposing counsel depending on the circumstances
Nature of Case: Trade-dress infringement
Electronic Data Involved: Emails
Keywords: sanctions, preclusion order, beads
Key Insight: admissibility of evidence of spoliation without a finding of an intent to deprive
Nature of Case: personal injury
Electronic Data Involved: video tape
Keywords: intentional spoliation, adverse inference or presumption, Louisiana, negligence, bad faith
Key Insight: reproduction of files in TIFF format, review production for responsiveness
Nature of Case: False Claims Act
Electronic Data Involved: emails, electronically stored documents, transaction data
Keywords: TIFF, native format, overly burdensome, technology assisted review, TAR, Image Files, Bates number
Key Insight: Provide only the information requested, especially if it is simple database records, additional work will not be compensated
Nature of Case: Horse Protection Act
Electronic Data Involved: Database records
Keywords: Horse, soring, cost-sharing
Key Insight: Requested ESI must be proportional to damages
Nature of Case: TCPA do-not-call
Electronic Data Involved: Email
Keywords: Class action, proportional, TCPA
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