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Order Granting In Camera Review of Work Product Claim

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Hall’s claims arise from the Defendants alleged concealment of exculpatory evidence and coercion of witness testimony during Mr. Halls 1992 murder trial. No Privilege Log is Necessary in Limited Circumstances When Discovery Requests Are Overbroad (Apr. This blog was initially posted on Electronic Discovery Reference Model.

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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. ” Wallace, “Discovery of Government Documents and the Official Information Privilege,” 76 Colum.

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Geofence Search Warrant Held Valid

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On April 4, 2020, a witness observed the stolen farm equipment on the farm. On April 11, a witness found it missing. Another witness saw an antique tractor being hauled away between April 3 and 5. 423 (2022), discussed in Discovery From Cell Phones – Differing Civil and Criminal Protocols in Maryland (Nov.

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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. Hughey made.”

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Best Evidence Rule Requires Post-Level Collection for Social Media Evidence

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The court cited an affidavit submitted by an eDiscovery expert witness who noted that when X1 Social Discovery was used to collect from the Plaintiff’s Facebook account, key evidence that existed prior to the litigation was missing because it had been deleted by the Plaintiff prior to the X1 Social Discovery collection.

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Proportionality in Email Searches

Joshua Gilliland

The Plaintiff argued that the new searches should have been conducted without the Plaintiff’s first and last name on each of the witnesses’ email accounts. For example, Plaintiff has not shown that she would be unable to uncover the same information by asking additional questions of witnesses already scheduled to be deposed.

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Texas Upholds Narrow Geofence Warrant After Melee Resulted in Murder

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This step was intended to aid the police in ruling out any devices flagged by the Anonymized List so that the identity of obvious non-witnesses and non-participants would not be revealed. Step 3 required disclosure of subscriber information for those identified as relevant.