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Electronic Discovery & Evidence 

A daily digest of cases, comments and other matters relating to electronic discovery and electronic evidence.
Post Frequency: 0.7/day Last Entry: March 08, 2011 at 11:07:00 Recent Entries: 142
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Court Imposes eDiscovery Costs to Encourage Litigants to Exercise Restraint in Burdening the Producing Party
Posted on January 04, 2010Cbt Flint v. Return Path, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 121188, at *14-16 (N.D. Ga. Dec. 30, 2009). The Court granted...
Did We Really Need eDiscovery Procedural Rules?
Posted on December 31, 2009Did We Really Need Ediscovery Procedural Rules? Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does...
Supreme Court Affirms $8,000,000 Verdict and Instructs Multinational Company to Maintain Document Retrieval System
Posted on December 29, 2009Magaña v. Hyundai Motor Am., 2009 Wash. LEXIS 1066 (Wash. Nov. 25, 2009). The Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's...
Delaware Court Imposes $750,000 Attorney Fees and Other Severe Sanctions for Destruction of Unallocated Space ESI
Posted on December 28, 2009Case/Rule Name: TR Investors, LLC v. Genger, 2009 Del. Ch. LEXIS 203 (Del. Ch. Dec. 9, 2009). Summary: In this...
Chase Bank Severely Criticized Over Alleged Expenses in Complying With 3rd Party Subpoena
Posted on December 24, 2009Matter of Klein v. Persaud, 2009 NY Slip Op 52582U, 2 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Dec. 21, 2009). In this arbitration...
Litigation Intelligence Sites
Posted on December 21, 2009eLawExchange has assembled several hundred websites for the purpose of providing the legal professional with links to "litigation related" resources...
Third Party eDiscovery Independent Expert Appointed
Posted on December 18, 2009Third party independent expert appointed to determine if parties fulfilled preservation, legal hold and disclosure of ESI ediscovery obligations. Maggette...
Find eDiscovery Vendors and Experts
Posted on December 17, 2009eLawExchange (www.elawexchange.com) provides complimentary access to the services offered by over 180 electonic discovery vendors, experts and service providers.
Supreme Court to Review Employer Access to Text Messages
Posted on December 15, 2009"The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether government employers can read text messages that their workers send and...
Complimentary Access to State eDiscovery Case Law and Procedural Rules
Posted on December 15, 2009State eDiscovery Caselaw and Procedural Rules Free - Search for ediscovery cases/rules in your state. Visit http://www.elawexchange.com and begin searching....
New Legal Forms Added
Posted on December 14, 2009For those recent purchasers of Arkfeld on Elecronic Discovery and Evidence treatise additional forms have been added to the online...
Triggering Event - Legal Hold & Sanctions
Posted on December 14, 2009Well written decision determining triggering event for legal hold and finding no sanctions since e-mails destroyed were not found to...
Arkfeld Publications - 20% End of Year Promotion
Posted on December 14, 2009Save 20% on Arkfeld Publications & Get Over 120 Practice Forms FREE! Order Now and get the acclaimed eDiscovery publications...
Judges and Lawyers in Florida Can No Longer be Facebook "Friends"
Posted on December 12, 2009In a recent Florida ethic's opinion the state?s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee decided that Judges and attorneys being "friends" on...
Failure to Properly Redact Electronic Documents
Posted on December 10, 2009Failure to properly redact electronic documents can lead to severe consequences - ttp://www.wanderingaramean.com/2009/12/tsa-makes-another-stupid-move.html
No Early Appeals for Attorney-Client Privilege Rulings.
Posted on December 10, 2009The United States Supreme Court rules that orders requiring a party to disclose information that they believe is protected by...
Electronic Document Costs are Recoverable
Posted on December 08, 2009The Court noted that ". . . costs for electronic copies of documents are recoverable where they are a substitute...
3rd Party's Deletion of Computer Files Referred to US Attorney for Possible Criminal Contempt
Posted on September 10, 2009Penalties for the spoliation of ESI in a civil case has just taken on a new dimension with the recent...
Defendant?s Loss of Electronic Information Was Sanctionable Due to Information Management Practices
Posted on August 02, 2009Phillip M. Adams & Assocs. v. V., No. 05-64, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26964 (N.D. Utah Mar. 30, 2009). In...
The Stunning Impact of E-Discovery on IT
Posted on July 10, 2009The Stunning Impact of E-Discovery on IT. "Since more than 95 percent of all information is electronic and it's estimated...
"Read my lips, Dell is in contempt."
Posted on June 28, 2009"Dell held in contempt in New Orleans camera case. An Orleans Parish judge has held Dell in contempt of court...
E-mails Can Jeopardize Your Job
Posted on June 28, 2009E-mails Can Jeopardize Your Job. " If ever there was a reminder to be cautious with e-mails, it came this...
Electronic Discovery Vendors and Service Providers
Posted on June 23, 2009LawExchange (www.elawexchange.com) provides complimentary access to over 160 electonic discovery vendors and service providers.
Electronic Discovery State Legal Cases and Procedural Rules
Posted on June 23, 2009eLawExchange (www.elawexchange.com) provides complimentary access to state electonic discovery cases and procedural rules.
Back Off Metadata Ethics Complaint, Judge Tells Lawyer Suing Sexploits Blogger.
Posted on June 17, 2009Back Off Metadata Ethics Complaint, Judge Tells Lawyer Suing Sexploits Blogger. "A lawyer who claims he was the paramour identified...
Judge Rules Dorm Room Search for Evidence of Prank Email Illegal.
Posted on May 25, 2009Judge Rules Dorm Room Search for Evidence of Prank Email Illegal. "Boston, MA - infoZine - A justice of the...
Court Strikes Down GPS Tracking Without Warrant
Posted on May 12, 2009"Court Strikes Down GPS Tracking Without Warrant. Jonathan LippmanNathaniel Brooks for The New York Times Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman wrote...
Fax Server Hacked Results in $175,000 Fine
Posted on May 01, 2009"FINRA Fines Centaurus Financial $175,000 for Failure to Protect Confidential Customer Information Washington, D.C. ? The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority...
EDiscovery Goes Wordwide.
Posted on March 29, 2009"Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries. TORONTO ? A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has...
Publisher's Promotional Offer - eDiscovery and Evidence Review
Posted on March 29, 2009Law Partner Publishing announces the release of the new ARKFELD'S eDISCOVERY and EVIDENCE REVIEW by the well-known author, speaker and...
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Can my employer threaten me with termination if I don't seek a transfer to another department?
In many jurisdictions, employees are "at will". This means that their employmen...
The photo was taken by a fellow employee who lives in an adjacent house. The photo was circulated throughout the company we both work for, including management. The photo allegedly shows drug activity. Management as well
The employee keeping illegal watch on you is liable for police action initiated ...
What kind of compensation should I expect for taking a bite out of a sandwich that had a used bandaid in it?
Whose Insurance Company? Not the vendor's. Don't trust the Vendor'...
How can a sexual harrasment case be dismissed even with evidence?
American law has very strict evidence requirements that are intended to insure t...
My aunt can no longer take care of herself, my mother would like to take her back to florida with her, but my aunt has a car an condo and other things take need to be taken care of, and there is evidence of another famil
You have to petition the probate court in her state and county to file as legal ...








