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Is a “Composite” Video Admissible and Can a Police Officer “Narrate” It at Trial? – Part 1 of 2

E-Discovery LLC

This first blog addresses the admissibility of a “composite” video prepared by the prosecution. Second , while the source materials “need not be introduced into evidence,” they must be “otherwise admissible.” That litigation involved a fatal police shooting in which I represented the defendants. Waterman v. Batton, 294 F.

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Is Marking Documents as “Work Product” an Admission that the Duty to Preserve is Triggered?

E-Discovery LLC

Generally, work product protects certain information prepared in anticipation of litigation. And, generally, the common-law duty to preserve is triggered when litigation is reasonably anticipated. 26(b)(3) protects “things that are prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial” and Fed.R.Civ.P. For example, Fed.R.Civ.P.

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My Most Interesting Blogs From 2024

E-Discovery LLC

Is a Composite Video Admissible and Can a Police Officer Narrate It at Trial? Reasonably Calculated to Lead to Discovery of Admissible Evidence Is a Vehicles On Board or Dash Cam Video Protected From Disclosure as Work Product? Can a witness authenticate a video if the video contains images that the witness did not see?

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Federal Circuit Will Soon Hear Case that Threatens the Statutory Presumption Afforded Copyright Registration

IP Watchdog

World Programming, Ltd (WPL) is a British software company that, by its own admission, set out to “clone” SAS’s creative and popular software. The litigation that followed has been lengthy and stretched from North Carolina to the U.K. But the judge in that case made a critical error, which is now on appeal.

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A Wake Up Call Revisited: Read the Rules & Don’t Argue “Not Reasonably Calculated” in Federal Courts

E-Discovery LLC

19, 2025)(Emphasis added), the court wrote: Throughout his responses, Canales objects to OPWs requests on the ground that they are not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. See Reasonably Calculated to Lead to Discovery of Admissible Evidence (Nov. Emphasis added]. citation omitted]. accord Avila v.

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Is a Vehicle’s “On Board” or “Dash Cam” Video Protected From Disclosure as “Work Product?”

E-Discovery LLC

Plaintiff responded that the videos were not created in anticipation of litigation and therefore they are not protected work product. It explained that “there is nothing in the record to suggest that Defendant created the requested videos in anticipation of litigation. Next , the court overruled the improper boilerplate objections.

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What Objections May Be Raised to a Subpoena by a Non-Party?

E-Discovery LLC

In separate litigation, the wife had engaged in improper conduct, including refusal to return and wiping a TST laptop, copying and retaining TST data, and she was held liable for conversion, enjoined, and punitive damages were assessed against her. Rule 5-402 (“Evidence that is not relevant is not admissible.”). See, e.g., Cole v.

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