Key Insight: production from additional custodians not justified because expensive and not fruitful to date
Nature of Case: TRO
Electronic Data Involved: emails
Keywords: additional custodians
Key Insight: Hague convention may be used to take the deposition of a former employee living in London.
Nature of Case: class action alleging securities fraud
Keywords: hague convention, letter rogatory
Key Insight: whether plaintiff’s privacy rights outweigh apple’s interest in information re phone performance, updates, etc.
Nature of Case: consumer protection
Electronic Data Involved: forensic imaging
Keywords: forensic imaging iphone
Key Insight: CEO emails not related enough to be proportional
Nature of Case: Patent
Electronic Data Involved: emails
Keywords: Zuckerberg emails
Key Insight: The duty to preserve should be proportional and reasonable, not perfect and absolute.
Nature of Case: Rule 37(e) analysis of the defendant’s actions
Electronic Data Involved: Video Clips, CCTV and VDR
Keywords: Preserve, camera, viewable, “recorded continuously”, CCTV, RCCL
Key Insight: audit returns requested not proportional since massive burden to non-party
Nature of Case: Driver’s Privacy Protection Act
Electronic Data Involved: LEMS audit returns
Keywords: judge warns of sanctions
Key Insight: Plaintiff requested access records to determine potential class members. Court denied as unduly burdensome to non-party and unlikely to produce relevant information.
Nature of Case: Privacy
Electronic Data Involved: Driver License Database Access Records
Keywords: access records, non-party, burden
Key Insight: Did not withhold irrelevant texts. Judge denied clawback for relevance.
Nature of Case: Contract
Electronic Data Involved: Text Messages
Keywords: clawback, relevance
Key Insight: Responding party did not meet its burden to show requests were improper because it only responded with general objections
Nature of Case: breach of contract
Electronic Data Involved: emails and business records
Keywords: general objection,
Key Insight: sexual harassment complaints discoverable
Nature of Case: workplace discrimination
Electronic Data Involved: investigation documents
Keywords: fire department pattern of sexual harassment
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