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Case Blurb: Mformation Technologies; Court discusses document dumps and the meaning of 'maintained in the usual course of business'
Courts have struggled with the interpretation of Fed. R. Civ. P. 34 which allows production as documents are maintained in the usual course of the producing party’s business. In attempting to de… more →
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New Bad Idea: Claiming You Can Produce ESI as PDF’s because “Native File” is “Ambiguous”
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bowtielaw wrote 5 days ago: In Cenveo Corp. v. Southern Graphic Sys., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108623 (D. Minn. Nov. 18, 2009), the … more →
Case Blurb: Mformation Technologies; Court discusses document dumps and the meaning of 'maintained in the usual course of business'
rjbiii wrote 6 days ago: Courts have struggled with the interpretation of Fed. R. Civ. P. 34 which allows production as docum … more →
Case Blurb: Covad; Don't blame the processing platform
rjbiii wrote 3 months ago: Post Process: Previous decisions in this contentious case required, among other things, that the pro … more →
Production Madness: The Covad Story Continues with New ESI Pitfalls
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bowtielaw wrote 3 months ago: Understandably, taking an electronic document such as a spreadsheet, printing it, cutting it up, and … more →
Get Out the Check Book for Translating ESI into a Reasonably Usable Form in California
bowtielaw wrote 3 months ago: California Code of Civil Procedure 2031.280(e) states, in relevant part: If necessary, the respondin … more →
California Rules on the Form of Production
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bowtielaw wrote 3 months ago: Discussing the California Electronic Discovery Act provisions on stating the form of production in a … more →
Don’t Argue Imaginary ESI Production Problems
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bowtielaw wrote 3 months ago: In re NetBank, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69031 (N.D. Ga. Aug. 7, 2009) has form of production argu … more →
Rock Opera Discovery of Archived ESI
bowtielaw wrote 3 months ago: In re In re Operadora DB Mex., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68078 (M.D. Fla. May 28, 2009), is the story of … more →
Swimming in the Deep End: Treading Water in e-Discovery Cases
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bowtielaw wrote 4 months ago: This motion centers on electronic discovery. The proper handling of electronic discovery is a new an … more →
Motion to Compel Camera Phone Photo
bowtielaw wrote 5 months ago: Just as the Def Leppard Song Goes: All I got is a photograph — and it is not enough. (from the … more →
Follow the Court Order: If You are Ordered to Produce Searchable PDF’s, Don’t Produce TIFFs without Searchable Text
bowtielaw wrote 5 months ago: Gamesmanship is the harbinger of bad lawyer reputations. Not obeying Court orders can be the death … more →
Procrastination and Objecting to the Form of Production Don’t Mix
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bowtielaw wrote 6 months ago: It is beyond cavil that this entire problem could have been avoided had there been an explicit agree … more →
Name that Form of Production: Converting ESI to TIFF without Metadata is Not a Reasonably Useable Form
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bowtielaw wrote 7 months ago: Bray & Gillespie Mgmt. LLC v. Lexington Ins. Co., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21250 (M.D. Fla. Mar. 4, … more →
Check Please: Challenging a PDF Form of Production
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bowtielaw wrote 7 months ago: Rahman v. Smith & Wollensky Rest. Group, Inc., is an employment discrimination case where the De … more →
Court Orders OCR of Scanned Paper Documents, or Don't Go to Court Claiming OCR will Cost $200,000
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bowtielaw wrote 9 months ago: “OCR, while perhaps not absolutely necessary to litigation, is a tool that greatly decreases t … more →
Whose Search Term is it Anyway?
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bowtielaw wrote 9 months ago: In Spieker v. Cherokee, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88103 (D. Kan. Oct. 30, 2008), the parties became enta … more →
Case Blurb: Covad Communs Co.; Court examines form of production dispute
rjbiii wrote 9 months ago: On August 4, 2008, [Producing Party] advised [Requesting Party] that it had additional responsive do … more →
Production of Metadata and the Importance of the Meet & Confer Process
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bowtielaw wrote 9 months ago: This lawsuit demonstrates why it is so important that parties frilly discuss their ESI early in the … more →
Production of Text Messages Protocol
bowtielaw wrote 9 months ago: The sensitivity courts are showing to text messages and public employees’ reasonable expectati … more →
