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

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The Federal “Official Information” Privilege

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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

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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.

Discovery 130
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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. 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.,

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

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

A lot of what you see at legal week is you see the shiny objects. And so they like the message that we’re not trying to sell them a shiny object, something new to bring in to be that sort of silver bullet. And many times that’s in the discovery space. So that we can actually perhaps bring a little different message.

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Protecting the Judiciary and the Rule of Law – Frivolous Articles to Impeach Federal Judge Filed

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Judge Vargas modified Judge Engelmayers order to the extent it could be read in the way defendants objected to it. 1] After briefing and review of defense affidavits, none of which were available to Judge Engelmayer, the States narrowed their requested injunction. at *3 (Emphasis added). 11, 2025)(Emphasis added). Thats not political.