eDiscovery Daily Blog

• June 9, 2015

I’m out of the office this week, taking the kiddos on a family vacation (can you guess where?). Instead of going dark for the week (which we almost never do), I decided to use the opportunity to give you a chance to catch up on cases we’ve covered so far this year with a couple of case law pop quizzes, sandwiched around a popular post from the past that you may have missed.

Yesterday, we gave you a pop quiz for the first set of cases. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.

1. In which case did the judge state that the defendant’s “discovery misconduct calls for serious measures”?

A. Bonillas v. United Air Lines Inc.

B. James v. National Financial LLC

C. Ablan v. Bank of America

D. Federico et al. v. Lincoln Military Housing LLC, et al.

2. In which case did the court order the defendant to submit a further declaration supporting its claimed eDiscovery costs?

A. Bonillas v. United Air Lines Inc.

B. James v. National Financial LLC

C. Ablan v. Bank of America

D. Federico et al. v. Lincoln Military Housing LLC, et al.

3. In which case was a request for sanctions denied by the court?

A. James v. National Financial LLC

B. Ablan v. Bank of America

C. Federico et al. v. Lincoln Military Housing LLC, et al.

D. Requests for sanctions were granted in all of the above cases

4. In which case did the court decline to sanction a party for failing to produce or make available documents held by the plaintiff’s outside vendor?

A. Bonillas v. United Air Lines Inc.

B. James v. National Financial LLC

C. Ablan v. Bank of America

D. Federico et al. v. Lincoln Military Housing LLC, et al.

5. Which case involved allowing the defendant to introduce Facebook posts into evidence that related to the plaintiff’s physical capabilities?

A. Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Co. v. Westport Insurance Corp.

B. Newill v. Campbell Transp. Co.

C. Herron v. Fannie Mae, et al.

D. Bertoli et al. v. City of Sebastopol, et al.

6. In which case did the judge issue an order titled “Order on One Millionth Discovery Dispute”?

A. Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Co. v. Westport Insurance Corp.

B. Newill v. Campbell Transp. Co.

C. Herron v. Fannie Mae, et al.

D. Bertoli et al. v. City of Sebastopol, et al.

7. In which case did the court award attorney fees requested by the defendant to compensate for filing a motion to compel the plaintiff to produce documents?

A. Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Co. v. Westport Insurance Corp.

B. Newill v. Campbell Transp. Co.

C. Herron v. Fannie Mae, et al.

D. Bertoli et al. v. City of Sebastopol, et al.

8. In which case was the plaintiff’s motion to compel the defendants to produce ESI again in native format denied by the court?

A. Herron v. Fannie Mae, et al.

B. Bertoli et al. v. City of Sebastopol, et al.

C. Allison v. Clos-ette Too, LLC

D. Lutzeier v. Citigroup Inc.

9. In which case did the judge state that “the majority of the search terms suggested by Plaintiff are too generic and are likely to produce a large number of documents that are irrelevant to this case”?

A. Herron v. Fannie Mae, et al.

B. Bertoli et al. v. City of Sebastopol, et al.

C. Allison v. Clos-ette Too, LLC

D. Lutzeier v. Citigroup Inc.

10. In which case did the appeals court reverse an award for attorney fees due to ESI requests that the lower court deemed as “clearly frivolous”?

A. Herron v. Fannie Mae, et al.

B. Bertoli et al. v. City of Sebastopol, et al.

C. Allison v. Clos-ette Too, LLC

D. Lutzeier v. Citigroup Inc.

As always, please let us know if you have questions or comments, or if there are specific topics you’d like to see covered.

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