In Stooksbury v. Ross, the Sixth Circuit upheld the entry of default judgment as a sanction against defendants that repeatedly failed to comply with discovery obligations, including producing a “document dump” of tens of thousands of pages of nonresponsive information that prejudiced the plaintiffs.
read moreA lot is happening in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) group lately and this blog has reported several accomplishments in just the last few months. With so much going on, you would think they don’t need any help to get things done, but, in fact, EDRM wants your help.
read more“Since March 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas has been involved in an intense effort to find ways to ensure that civil litigation actually is handled in the “just, speedy, and inexpensive” manner contemplated by Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.” That quote is from a Rule 1 Task Force Update, issued by the U.S. District Court in Kansas regarding efforts to create newly released guidelines for electronic data discovery.
read moreI have to be honest, this blog post contains quite a bit of content from one of the early posts from this blog. However, there is something different about this version of the content – it looks a bit unusual. Can you figure out how I wrote it? See if you can figure it out before you get to the bottom. I promise I haven’t lost my mind.
read moreBill Dimm provides a comprehensive and interesting description of near-dupes and the algorithms used to identify them in his Clustify blog (What is a near-dupe, really?). If you want to understand the “three reasonable, but different, ways of defining the near-dupe similarity between two documents”, bring your brain and check it out.
read moreAs we discussed last month, working with electronic files in a review tool is NOT just simply a matter of loading the files and getting started. Electronic files are diverse, they can represent a whole collection of issues to address in order to process them for loading, and processing them effectively requires a sound process. But, what if the evidentiary files you collect from your custodians contain viruses or other malware?
read moreIn Salvato v. Miley, a wrongful death action, Florida Magistrate Judge Philip R. Lammens denied the plaintiff’s motion to compel the defendant’s responses to discovery requests “based on Plaintiff’s very limited showing as to the relevance of the requested discovery and the broadly drafted discovery requests”.
read moreYesterday, we gave you a pop quiz for the topics we’ve covered in the past month. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.
read moreThe pop quizzes on the Litigation 101 for eDiscovery Tech Professionals series were so well received, we thought we would try a pop quiz for the topics we’ve covered in the past month. 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.
read moreYesterday, we discussed an article in The American Lawyer by Alan Cohen about six people who deserve special consideration as true trailblazers in eDiscovery. Today, let’s take a look at five trailblazing judges in eDiscovery.
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