eDiscovery Daily Blog

• August 4, 2014

We haven’t conducted a pop quiz in a while, so the “dog days” of summer seems like a good time for it.  This one is customized to the eDiscovery case law that we’ve covered the past three months.  If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy!  If not, we’ve provided a link to the post with the answer.  We’re that nice.  Test your knowledge!  Tomorrow, we’ll post the answers for those who don’t know and didn’t look them up.

1.  In which case was the plaintiff was ordered to produce photos of herself that were posted to Facebook?:

A. Castillon v. Corrections Corporation of America, Inc.

B. In Cactus Drilling Co. v. Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co.

C. Forman v. Henkin

D. None of the above

2.  In which case were sanctions imposed, even though no spoliation of evidence ultimately occurred?:

A. EEOC v. SVT, LLC

B. Procaps S.A. v. Patheon Inc.

C. Knickerbocker v Corinthian Colleges

D. None of the above

3.  In which case was over $50,000 of eDiscovery costs awarded to the prevailing party disallowed?:

A. Kwan Software Engineering v. Foray Technologies

B. Miller v. York Risk Servs. Grp.

C. United States v. Shabudin

D. In Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. Delaney

4.  In what case was one party ordered to continue to share a review database with the opposing party?:

A. Kwan Software Engineering v. Foray Technologies

B. Miller v. York Risk Servs. Grp.

C. United States v. Shabudin

D. In Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. Delaney

5.  In which case did the court disallow the plaintiff’s plan for predictive coding?:

A. Kwan Software Engineering v. Foray Technologies

B. Miller v. York Risk Servs. Grp.

C. United States v. Shabudin

D. In Progressive Cas. Ins. Co. v. Delaney

6.  In what case was the defendant’s request for a deposition to review whether the plaintiff had used “appropriate search tools for ESI discovery” denied?:

A. Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Hunt Control Sys., Inc.

B. Elkharwily v. Mayo Holding Co.

C. Stallings v. City of Johnston City

D. Raines v. College Now Greater Cleveland, Inc.

7.  In which case did the court suggest the parties consider the use of predictive coding?:

A. Chapman v. Hiland Operating, LLC

B. FDIC v. Bowden

C. Downs v. Virginia Health Systems

D. Zeller v. So. Central Emergency Med. Servs. Inc.

8.  How much was Samsung and Quinn Emanuel ordered to pay for their “Patentgate” disclosure of confidential Apple and Nokia agreements?:

A. $1 million

B. $2 million

C. $3 million

D. $10 million

9.  In which case did the court not only reject the plaintiff’s request for sanctions, but issued a summary judgment in favor of the defendant?:

A. Zeller v. So. Central Emergency Med. Servs. Inc.

B. In re Text Messaging Antitrust Litig.

C. Brown v. Tellermate Holdings

D. Brookshire Bros., Ltd. v. Aldridge

10. In which case did the court issue a severe sanction against the defendant for failure to preserve data from cloud provider Salesforce.com?:

A. Zeller v. So. Central Emergency Med. Servs. Inc.

B. In re Text Messaging Antitrust Litig.

C. Brown v. Tellermate Holdings

D. Brookshire Bros., Ltd. v. Aldridge

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