In this case, the District Court considered Lexington Insurance Company’s motion for sanctions and reviewed the magistrate judge’s previous recommendation of dismissal sanctions and reimbursement costs. Bray & Gillespie Management, LLC, after it was discovered that it failed to produce records, claimed it was unaware of an automatic function of the business’s computerized account management [...]
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In this IP case, Return Path Inc., et al. filed a motion to tax the costs related to using CBT Flint Partners, LLC to assist with the production of 1.4 million electronic documents and 6 versions of source code. CBT Flint Partners, LLC argued that fees associated with the collection of documents for production are [...] From the National Law Journal, Sheri Qualters reports on the Delaware Court of Chancery’s recent spate of decisions regarding several aspects of e-discovery practice. Most significant to me is Beard Research Inc. v. Kates, in which plaintiffs were granted an adverse inference instruction for missing computer evidence. The key language: If the parties do not focus [...] Craig Ball absolutely nails it with his new column in Law Technology News regarding an approach to keyword search. Craig’s take on how attorneys currently fail to make the grade in crafting keyword searches, and how to implement an effective methodology for querying, echoes my own strategy for not only building effective search queries, but [...] What if I were to tell you that you had to spend $6 million — nine percent of your annual operating budget — to comply with an e-discovery subpoena? And what if you were a non-party to that particular dispute? The D.C. Circuit has upheld just such a cost in In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation, [...] |
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