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

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Geofence Search Warrant Held Valid

E-Discovery LLC

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

Next Generation E-Discovery Law & Tech Blog

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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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. Hughey deleted the account off the HHI computers. Hughey made.”

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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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The Rise of “Post-Truth” Litigation: ALM’s Isha Marathe on How Deep Fakes Threaten the Legal System (TGIR Ep. 209)

3 Geeks and a Law Blog

E-discovery professionals are on the front lines of detecting deep fakes used as evidence, according to Marathe. Catch Deepfakes If You Can: Can E-Discovery Tools Keep Up With Gen AI? So yeah, that’s that’s the that’s the discovery portion of it. They are easy and inexpensive to create but difficult to detect.