E-Discovery LLC

JULY 3, 2024

June 28, 2024)(unreported), the intermediate appellate court affirmed a discovery sanction in a divorce action. Mrs. Ferko alleged that Mr. Ferko’s discovery responses were inadequate on the issue of marital property. Ferko then filed two more motions to compel asserting that the discovery responses were deficient.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When it came to discovery, it wasn’t. Tekvantage and Teknowledgies are not parties to this litigation. RFP 1: “NO SUCH DOCUMENTS EXIST” Generally, when an attorney signs a discovery response under Fed.R.Civ.P. Discovery is the Lawyer’s X-Ray; However, an MRI May Not Be Reasonable (Sep. Lain also owned Tekvantage, Inc.

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E-Discovery LLC

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

THE DISCOVERY VIOLATION AND COURT ORDER Minh propounded discovery on Kelly. First, any sanction must be just; second, the sanction must be specifically related to the particular claim which was at issue in the order to provide discovery. Kelly Hoang Law Firm v. Hoang , 2023 WL 3150110 (C.D. 14, 2023). cleaned up).

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 19, 2025

Thompson I explained the 2000 change in the scope of discovery that remains in force, with some changes, today. [1] Thompson I explained the 2000 change in the scope of discovery that remains in force, with some changes, today. [1] 2001)( Thompson I ), was a class action by Baltimore public housing residents. Emphasis added].

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

9, 2024), provides a succinct summary of the scope of discovery under the December 2015 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Information within this scope of discovery need not be admissible in evidence to be discoverable.” It – surprisingly – sustained boilerplate objections. The case involved a loan gone south.

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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. Etame appealed, arguing abuse of discretion in the imposition of discovery sanctions.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

29, 2024), rejected “oceanic” discovery requests, while permitting reasonable ones. The court wrote: “Not surprisingly, discovery in this case, like ‘the course of true love, [has been anything but] smooth.’ Subrin, “Fishing Expeditions Allowed: The Historical Background of the 1938 Federal Discovery Rules,” 39 B.C. Rodriguez v.

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E-Discovery LLC

MAY 25, 2024

May 15, 2024), in a “recently filed” case, “the Court issues the following Order to provide instructions to the parties regarding their initial discovery obligations and to institute initial case management proceedings.” Instead of an “ESI Protocol,” the court ordered the parties to submit a “discovery plan.” Discovery Plan” (Jan.

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Complex Discovery

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Understanding how courts may handle AI-generated evidence will be crucial for those responsible for managing digital content, ensuring data integrity, and navigating complex litigation involving digital forensics. John Tunheim, delves into how the judiciary can prepare for the impact of AI-manipulated evidence.

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 9, 2024

24, 2024), “Plaintiff, Vernie Kent, seeks to compel Defendant, Kade Warner, to produce a surveillance video Defendant’s attorney prepared in conjunction with this litigation.” This blog was initially posted on Electronic Discovery Reference Model. at *1 (citing cases).

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 16, 2025

Discovery issues included, without limitation, whether email was discoverable, the late production by defendants of 80,000 responsive emails, proportionality, and a condemnation of boilerplate objections (called ipse dixit objections). I am going to follow this blog with several more blogs on older discovery decisions. Emphasis added].

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 17, 2024

11, 2024), involved a request for discovery from a former Town attorney concerning an offer that he allegedly made to plaintiffs. The court: set out the governing standard for discovery from an attorney and, denied a request to depose the attorney; but, authorized a limited interrogatory to him. Albra , 2024 WL 4471672 (S.D.N.Y.

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E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 20, 2024

Life is Short It is also a red flag when the court notes: “Since February of 2023, there have only been rare and brief occasions when the parties did not have some discovery dispute before the court.” Nor is it a positive development when that court wrote: “Things have never exactly moved along at a break-neck pace in this litigation.

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E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 4, 2024

It was an honor to be part of a presentation on “Social Media in Litigation” to the Maryland Judicial College today, together with The Hon. We did demonstrations of a pro se litigant offering evidence from a cell phone and a mock direct examination authenticating a Facebook page. Grimm (ret.), Shelton, Esq.,

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 16, 2024

In the latest iteration of In Re StubHub Refund Litigation , 2024 WL 3817068 (N.D. 13, 2024), the court began its decision of discovery issues with: “At the hearing Plaintiffs tried to walk back this [discovery] request and said it was limited to refund data, rather than a wholesale redo of non-custodial discovery.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 9, 2024

16, 2024)(citing cases: “Defendants included general and boilerplate objections in their responses to discovery, which are not acceptable in this circuit. Defendants’ responses are a perfect example of how not to answer discovery requests. See General Objections, Dracula, and “Whac a Mole” (Apr. Griffith Lab’ys, Inc.,

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Discovery Advocate

MARCH 13, 2023

Practical Insight This case is a cautionary tale for the attorney who may know to say all of the right things when it comes to modern discovery practice but, in fact, lacks the expertise and competence to oversee a defensible discovery effort. Competence pervades every aspect of the ESI discovery process.

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 28, 2025

24, 2025), the court imposed sanctions on a pro se litigant who, in the courts words, has engaged in unseemly behavior towards counsel as well as improper discovery litigation. He alleged discrepancies in the timestamps of some of the emails produced by Costco as part of the discovery. In Rivera v.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Plaintiff responded that the videos were not created in anticipation of litigation and therefore they are not protected work product. It explained that “there is nothing in the record to suggest that Defendant created the requested videos in anticipation of litigation. Next , the court overruled the improper boilerplate objections.

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Discovery Advocate

MARCH 30, 2023

In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litig., — F. In failing to preserve relevant chat messages after the commencement of litigation, the court opined that Google “fell strikingly short … in honor[ing] the evidence preservation duties it was abundantly familiar with from countless prior cases.” 21-MD-02981 (JD) (N.D.

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In separate litigation, the wife had engaged in improper conduct, including refusal to return and wiping a TST laptop, copying and retaining TST data, and she was held liable for conversion, enjoined, and punitive damages were assessed against her. Both the husband and wife sought discovery from TST.

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E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 6, 2025

Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation , 2025 WL 678543 (Mar. 3, 2025), the court issued another hyperlinked document discovery decision arising out of the parties ESI Protocol. While production issues concerning hyperlinked or modern attachments have been extensively litigated, in this blog I discuss some related evidentiary issues.

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E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 26, 2025

20, 2025), the court wrote: From the inception of this action, Counsel for the parties could not agree on the scope and methodology for ESI discovery. Second , plaintiffs service of a mandatory discovery plan was held to show a lack of cooperation. 26(f) requires a conference of the parties to discuss a discovery plan.

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Ball in Your Court

AUGUST 1, 2024

Yesterday, I sought to defend the value of my law school course on E-Discovery & Digital Evidence to a law Dean who readily conceded that she didn’t know what e-discovery was or why it would be an important thing for lawyers to understand. My métier has always been litigation, to… It was a bracing experience.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 2, 2025

One problem with ESI Protocols, and one of their advantages , is that – – unlike a discovery plan – – the term ESI Protocol is not defined anywhere. Discovery Plan (Jan. Many (like me) agree with Kelly Twigger that: An ESI protocol is your roadmap to handling ESI issues in any litigation. ESI Protocol v.

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E-Discovery LLC

APRIL 4, 2025

Hall alleges that BPD and three former officersDonald Licato, Frank Barlow, and John Barrickconcealed exculpatory evidence and coerced false witness testimony during Plaintiffs 1992 murder trial. Non-party status receives special weight and leads to an even more demanding and sensitive inquiry than the one governing discovery generally.

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E-Discovery LLC

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Discovery Plan The ESI Protocol: Your Word is Your Bond Or, Is It? Reasonably Calculated to Lead to Discovery of Admissible Evidence Is a Vehicles On Board or Dash Cam Video Protected From Disclosure as Work Product? Mediation of Discovery Disputes by Courts Law Clerk?

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E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 31, 2025

The opinion opens with the following: Over four years into litigation, Defendants have failed to produce complete discovery responses. The court first addressed procedural issues, writing: This is not the first time the undersigned has written on procedural violations in this litigation. 27, 2025)(citation omitted).

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Fact discovery closed a day before the court’s opinion; however, it had been extended for 14 days “for the purpose of taking depositions that couldn’t be scheduled before the discovery cut-off.” Plaintiffs’ made their proposal to Meta on August 23 rd , prior to the September 30 th milestone cutting off discovery.

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Court wrote that: “Plaintiff admitted that he lost, misplaced, or destroyed relevant, discoverable material since initiating the litigation.” To the contrary, Plaintiff’s statements that evidence was lost when he was evicted and put his belongings in storage indicate that the loss was not purposeful. The loss was undisputed.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The Court denied an implied request for spoliation sanctions, writing: “Without evidence before it that there was a video, the Court declines to speculate that one existed.” The Court determined that there was a mere scintilla of evidence supporting causation due to a roof leak. In this blog, I suggest a different analysis.

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Hanzo Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

In the ongoing case of Sam Bankman-Fried and his failed crypto exchange FTX, the growing volume of evidence highlights the new landscape of ediscovery challenges when it comes to the breadth of new data sources showing up in corporate litigation.

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E-Discovery LLC

AUGUST 21, 2024

Plaintiff sought discovery of video footage “of an interaction” with her former manager and security personnel who had allegedly forcibly removed her from defendant’s premises. Rather, a party seeking spoliation sanctions must establish that the party with the evidence had an obligation to preserve it. at *7 (emphasis added).

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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 7, 2025

The court held that a party need not show that litigation was anticipated when the party is actually in litigation. 31, 2024), an inmate sued correctional officers from Waupun Correctional Institution for allegedly intercepting his correspondence based on a retaliatory motive. The court allowed the inmate to proceed on certain claims.

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E-Discovery LLC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The September 6, 2024, decision in In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, 2024 WL 4125618 (N.D. 34 discovery requests propounded by defendant Meta Platforms, Inc., 34 discovery requests propounded by defendant Meta Platforms, Inc., 467, 482-92 (2016).

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E-Discovery LLC

MARCH 27, 2025

The court added: Discovery tends to get confusing, sometimes irretrievably so, because attorneys often choose to make it that way as a strategy and refuse to take a reasonable view of what they actually need in discovery on one side and what they really should provide in discovery on the other side. Emphasis in original].

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E-Discovery LLC

OCTOBER 6, 2024

But, the Court found and held that there was no evidence that the defendants had read the emails after plaintiff’s termination. The Court rejected invasion of privacy and wiretap claims because there was no evidence that the employer had read the emails after the plaintiff was terminated. 19, 2021). [1]

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