In Noble Roman’s, Inc. v. Hattenhauer Distrib. Co., Indiana Magistrate Judge Debra McVicker Lynch, citing proportionality concerns, granted the plaintiff’s motion for a protective order and ordered that the defendant was prohibited from obtaining the discovery sought by the defendant’s subpoenas from a major shareholder of the plaintiff.
read moreThis Thursday, I’ll be in Birmingham, Alabama and I’m excited to be participating in a roundtable discussion regarding the new Rule 34(b) changes! Here is how you can attend (and even get CLE credit) if you’re in the Birmingham area and how you can still attend via the Web if you’re remote.
read moreIn Core Laboratories LP v. Spectrum Tracer Services, LLC et. al., Oklahoma District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange granted the plaintiff’s motion for sanctions for emails that were not preserved during an email provider switch via an adverse inference instruction, but denied the plaintiff’s motion for sanctions for deleting files and for wiping the computer of one of its employees.
read moreOne of the more interesting sessions at this week’s ACEDS conference was the session EDNA Challenge Part 2, where Tania Mabrey, Craig Ball and Tom O’Connor followed up on Craig’s original challenge from seven years ago (discussed in his paper E-Discovery for Everybody: The EDna Challenge) to conduct eDiscovery in a case on a budget of only $1,000. This time, the challenge was to do so at a cost of $5,000. While that might seem like an easier challenge, data volumes have risen dramatically, so it may be even more of a challenge than it was back then. Let’s see.
read moreAs I fly back home to flooded Houston after an enjoyable and successful ACEDS conference (and try to type this while the guy in front of me insists on reclining his seat), it’s worth noting that other stuff is going on too. One notable item from this week is that EDRM released (or should I say re-released) its Glossary of Terms.
read moreThe ACEDS conference concludes today after kicking off yesterday (and conducting pre-conference seminars the day before). Let’s take a look at today’s sessions.
read moreThe ACEDS conference informally kicked off yesterday with its pre-conference seminars and I enjoyed “talking shop” (from a blogging perspective) with Rob Robinson, Robin Thompson, Ari Kaplan and Tom O’Connor (among others). Now, that the appetizer is out of the way, let’s move on to the main course!
read moreAs we noted in our “pre-game” look at the ACEDS conference, today is the first day of the conference! Well, tomorrow is actually the first day of the conference, but today ACEDS will be offering three pre-conference seminars that should enable attendees identify better ways to address their cybersecurity needs, learn blogging tips and tricks from experienced bloggers (including me) and prepare for the CEDS exam.
read moreIt’s practically here! The ACEDS conference is next week! Here is a “pre-game” (i.e., “pre-conference”) look at some of the events at next week’s conference being held at the Grand Hyatt New York (located at 109 East 42nd Street at Grand Central Terminal) from Monday, the 18th through Wednesday, the 20th.
read moreWhen the FBI was able to access the iPhone used by one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino terrorist shooting, effectively ending the six week dispute between Apple and the FBI over privacy and security, we said the battle was over – for now. Apparently, “for now” was the same as “not for long”.
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