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Spoliation Discovery Permitted

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7, 2025), the court addressed a number of discovery disputes in this lawsuit by a terminated employee against her former employer. The court permitted spoliation interrogatories. The Li court ruled that: The [court] GRANTS Defendants’ motion to compel and ORDERS Plaintiff to answer these rogs.

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Discretionary Stay of Discovery Pending Decision on Dispositive Motion

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Defendants moved to stay all discovery deadlines pending a resolution of their motion to compel arbitration and for a stay pending arbitration. The motion to stay discovery was granted. The Court wrote that: It is axiomatic that district courts enjoy substantial discretion in managing discovery. 26(c)(1)(A)-(B).

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Another Approach to Drafting and Discovery of Litigation Hold Notices

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As to one document, the Courts review of the substance of each of the redacted paragraphs makes clear that the letter involves the application of legal principles relevant to discovery and evidence preservation to guide the future conduct of Defendants. DISCOVERY OF LITIGATION HOLD NOTICES HAS LONG BEEN AN ISSUE. Grimm (ret.)

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Does a Settlement Agreement That is Silent on a Fee Claim Waive a Judicially-Reserved Claim for Attorneys’ Fees Based on a Discovery Violation?

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In this unreported decision, the Court addressed a novel [1] Maryland issue where out-of-State decisions were mixed. The issue was whether a subsequent family law settlement agreement that did not expressly reserve a claim to attorneys fees for discovery violations waived that claim when the trial court had reserved ruling on it.

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Rules-Based Calendaring Software: Help Easing the Deadline Pain

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Your days are ruled by deadlines, including statutes of limitation, filing deadlines and discovery deadlines. That’s where rules-based calendaring systems come in: They help ease the pain of tracking and meeting deadlines. Instead, when court rules change, the revised deadlines are automatically applied to your firm’s calendars.

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The Clock is Ticking: How to Miss Fewer Court Deadlines

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These include statutes of limitation for filing a case, deadlines for filing motions, preparing for hearings, producing documents in litigation discovery or responding to a summary judgment. The Solution: Integrated Court Rules. Today law firms have multiple options for automated rules and calendar management.

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Court States: Pick Up the Telephone

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The court wrote: Here, the Court questions whether the parties have acted with sufficient diligence in pursuing discovery. The Jennings court discussed a series of discovery events, and added: The parties should be proactive in following-up with their discovery so as not to run into conflicts with the discovery cutoff.

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