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Production of Electronic Documents With Metadata in "Native Form" Can Be "Unduly Burdensome"

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: Lexology, January 25, 2008.

Production of electronic documents with metadata intact is unduly burdensome absent any showing that it would likely lead to relevant discoverable evidence
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner
"Production of electronic documents in ?native form? with imbedded metadata is unduly burdensome, when there has been no showing that the metadata underlying the documents would likely lead to discovery of relevant evidence and when such documents have already been produced in paper form."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on January 25, 2008 (boomark / email).