I 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.
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Remember the adverse inference instructions in the Zubulake v. UBS Warburg and Apple v. Samsung cases? This case has characteristics of both of those. In Pillay v. Millard Refrigerated Servs., Inc., Illinois District Judge Joan H. Lefkow granted the plaintiff’s motion for an adverse inference jury instruction due to the defendant’s failure to stop automatic deletion of employee productivity tracking data used as a reason for terminating a disabled employee.
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As we noted the past three days, eDiscoveryDaily published 98 posts related to eDiscovery case decisions and activities over the past year, covering 62 unique cases! Yesterday, we looked back at cases related to admissibility and the duty to preserve and produce electronically stored information (ESI). Today, let’s take a look back at cases related to sanctions and spoliation.
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When it’s Apple v. Samsung, of course! According to the Huffington Post, Apple Inc. requested a court order for a permanent U.S. sales ban on Samsung Electronics products found to have violated its patents along with additional damages of $707 million on top of the $1.05 billion dollar verdict won by Apple last month, already one of the largest intellectual-property awards on record.
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A while back, we talked about how the average number of pages in each gigabyte is approximately 50,000 to 75,000 pages and that each gigabyte effectively culled out can save $18,750 in review costs. But, did you know just how widely the number of pages per gigabyte can vary?
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Today’s thought leader is Joshua Poje. Joshua is a Research Specialist with the American Bar Association’s Legal Technology Resource Center, which publishes the Annual Legal Technology Survey. He is a graduate of DePaul University College of Law and Augustana College.
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As the sources of electronic files continue to become more diverse, case law associated with those different sources has become more commonplace. One ruling in a case last month resulted in an adverse instruction against the US Government for failing to preserve text messages.
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