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Oct 09

In Case You Missed It: Court Demands Parties Answer Questions About Spoliation

Published in SpoliationIn Case You Missed itFRCPEDiscoveryCase Law Update by James Crane | Comment (0)

 

The Northern District Court of California found a "troubling picture" when trying to understand how documents were possibly destroyed by a third-party defendant Taishan in Dong Ah Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. v. Glasforms, Inc., a breach of contract case.

Even after months of discovery, testimony of Taishan's 30(b)(6) witnesses, and court ordered search and production of documents by Taishan, the

Sep 25

In Case You Missed It: Production in Paper is Not Reasonably Usable Form

Published in In Case You Missed itFRCPEDiscovery by James Crane | Comment (0)

 

So, what happens when a party requests production of relevant electronically stored information, doesn't specify the form of production, and the producing party gives them boxes of paper documents that were converted to PDF and printed out?

The Kansas District Court looked at this issue last month in White v. Graceland Coll. Ctr. for Prof'l. Dev. & Lifelong Learning, Inc., a wrongful termination

Aug 14

In Case You Missed It: LotusNotes and Accessibility

Published in LitigationIn Case You Missed itFRCPEvidenceCase Law UpdateAccessibility by James Crane | Comment (0)

In Parkdale Am., L.L.C. v. Travelers Cas. and Sur. Co. of Am., Inc. (2007 WL 4165247), the Western District Court in North Carolina decided that relevant emails in LotusNotes format should be produced despite Plaintiffs' objections that it would cost $20,000 to convert them to a searchable format.

 The Court found that because the emails were from a key custodian, and the amount at stake dwarfed