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Yesterday, we gave you a pop quiz for the eDiscovery case law that we’ve covered recently. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.
read moreHere’s an opportunity to give you a chance to catch up on cases we’ve covered recently with a case law pop quiz! 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 to this pop quiz for those who don’t know and didn’t look them up.
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There is less than two weeks left before ILTACON 2015, the annual conference for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. eDiscovery Daily will be at the show and providing coverage before, during and after the show. If you’re attending (or thinking of attending), here is one session that you should put on your list to check out.
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In Procaps S.A. v. Patheon Inc., after the plaintiff designated 95% of its forensically-produced documents (141,525 of 148,636) as “highly confidential”, Florida District Judge Jonathan Goodman ordered the plaintiff to re-review and re-designate those documents within ten days, and also assessed a $25,000 fees award against the plaintiff’s outside counsel to compensate the defendant for its efforts in reviewing the documents.
read moreIn Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. v. Premium Beef Feeders, LLC, Kansas Magistrate Judge Teresa J. James granted the defendants’ motion to compel production of documents, overruling the plaintiffs’ objections to the discovery request in finding that “Plaintiff has not satisfied its burden to show that producing the requested documents would be unduly burdensome”.
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We’ve been covering the progress of adoption of changes to the Federal Rules and the associated debate regarding the rules – especially Rule 37(e) – for over two years. Unless Congress introduces legislation to affect the timing or content of the rules, the rules will become effective on December 1 of this year. But, did you know that there are new rules amendments for the District of Columbia, as well?
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If you’ve been a long time follower of this blog (or even not that long), you’re familiar with the thought leader interview series we conduct every year at LegalTech New York (LTNY). Now, you can listen to podcasts from a couple of eDiscovery thought leaders from the comfort of your own computer!
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A couple of years ago, after my annual LegalTech New York interviews with various eDiscovery thought leaders, I wrote a post about some of the perceived myths that exist regarding Technology Assisted Review (TAR) and what it means to the review process. After a recent discussion with a client where their misperceptions regarding TAR were evident, it seemed appropriate to revisit this topic and debunk a few myths that others may believe as well.
read moreIn United States v. Louisiana, Louisiana Magistrate Judge Richard L. Bourgeois, Jr., after reviewing 40 documents provided by the defendant for in-camera review, granted the plaintiff’s Renewed Motion to Compel a Proper Privilege Log, after denying the original motion because the plaintiff only provided 13 examples of “insufficient descriptions” within the privilege log’s entries.
read moreA few years ago, we covered a case law decision in the Delta/Air Tran Baggage Fee Antitrust Litigation, where Delta was ordered to pay plaintiff attorney’s fees and costs for eDiscovery issues in that litigation. Apparently, Delta’s difficulties in this case have continued, as they have been ordered this week to pay over $2.7 million in sanctions for failing to turn over ESI, to go along with more than $4.7 million in sanctions for earlier discovery violations.
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