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No Privilege Log is Necessary in Limited Circumstances When Discovery Requests Are Overbroad

E-Discovery LLC

In previous blogs, I addressed decisions holding that Where Requests for Discovery were Overly Broad, No Privilege Log was Required (Oct. 12, 2024); No Privilege Log Is Needed While Scope of Discovery Objections Are Pending (Aug. Both Mr. Hall and MAIP objected to the subpoena on a number of bases. Baltimore Police Dept.,

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Two Recent Decisions Imposing Sanctions for Discovery Failures

E-Discovery LLC

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. Nguh’s discovery requests, including requests for his address and phone number.

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Golden Oldie #2 – 40 Hours of Searching is Enough

E-Discovery LLC

Plaintiff filed a motion to compel discovery responses. At the outset, the Court wrote that it is given great flexibility to order only that discovery that is reasonable for a case, and to adjust the timing of discovery and apportion costs and burdens in a way that is fair and reasonable. Emphasis added].

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The Federal “Official Information” Privilege

E-Discovery LLC

Plaintiffs moved to compel production of documents after an in-person meet and confer to attempt resolution, and after counsel “ participated in an informal discovery conference with the undersigned’s Judicial Law Clerk regarding the dispute. ” Therefore, it overruled the objection. at *1 (emphasis added). citation omitted). [2]

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Requesting Parties Are Denied “Input” Into Producing Party’s Search Terms

E-Discovery LLC

In Tremblay, after the second denial, the court continued: It appears that Plaintiffs now seek to litigate that issue for a third time, and by doing so, it appears that the objective of the courts initial ruling (i.e., His Honor added: Of course, the best solution in the entire area of electronic discovery is cooperation among counsel.

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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

E-Discovery LLC

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. 4, 2024), quoting Khan v.

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Do You Really Need to Ask for Metadata?

Joshua Gilliland

The Court held it would be unduly burdensome for the Producing Party to produce the ESI with metadata after originally producing the discovery as paper. Review applications use the metadata to populate the database of “objective coding,” the information gleamed from the four corners of a document. AutomationDirect.com, Inc.,