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Two Recent Decisions Imposing Sanctions for Discovery Failures

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26, 2024)(unreported), dismissals for discovery violations were affirmed. Nguh, one owner, propounded discovery on Mr. Etame, the opposing owner. The Appellate Court wrote: Mr. Etame failed to respond to discovery, and on March 3, 2022, Ms. Etame did not appear for his deposition on March 10, 2022. As a result, Ms.

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Employer Erred by Downloading Former Employee’s Personal Email; But, Failure to Preserve it Was Not Spoliation; and, There Was a Gap in Employee Handbook Clause Permitting Employer Access Post-Termination

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Based on these facts, an affidavit from IT Director Mr. Hughey, and an investigation by a technology consultant, Mr. Shapiro alleged that each of the individual defendants (and thus HHI, since they were acting in their official capacities) had accessed his emails unlawfully. Hughey deleted the account off the HHI computers. Emphasis added).

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LegalWeek 2024 Special Part Two: Mollie Nichols and Mark Noel from Redgrave Data

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And many times that’s in the discovery space. And they want to be able to compare them to understand, you know, to be able to look at apples to apples, and to look at the efficiencies and each one of their discovery vendors. But it can be in Legal Operations and other areas as well.