Plaintiff eDiscovery Discussion of Defendant Evidence Spoliation Continues
Our last blog laid out the specific facts and timeline of Bozic v. City of Washington, Pennsylvania (2012 WL 6050610)(W.D.Pa. Dec. 5, 2012). In this case, plaintiff alleged the city as defendant...
View ArticlePreservation Orders Issued for eDiscovery in Fungal Meningitis Cases
The plaintiffs in the potential multidistrict litigation In Re New England Compounding Pharmacy Cases secured a key win early on: the judge ordered preservation orders for tangible and electronic...
View ArticleDiscovery of Foreign Documents Stayed in Travel Website MDL
Plaintiffs who filed two class action lawsuits have now been combined as a multidistrict litigation, alleging certain online travel sites have colluded with major hotels to engage in price-fixing in...
View ArticlePlaintiffs Sought Spoliation Sanction for Deleted Audio Recordings: Warranted...
In the case Cottle-Banks v. Cox Communications, 2013 WL 2244333 (S.D.Cal 2013), a court considered an electronic discovery issue of whether spoliation sanctions were warranted against the defendant for...
View ArticleeDiscovery Question: Is Negligent Destruction of “Irrelevant” Evidence...
Our last blog reviewed the facts in the case Cottle-Banks v. Cox Communications, 2013 WL 2244333 (S.D.Cal 2013) regarding the issue of automatic destruction of electronic data from audio tapes....
View ArticleWhat Are Defendants Hiding in NuvaRing Multidistrict Litigation?
Multidistrict litigation differs from class action lawsuits in that each plaintiff pursues individual lawsuits, but the discovery and pretrial phases are consolidated for purposes of judicial economy....
View ArticleCourt Rules Handing Over iPhone Outside Scope of eDiscovery Requests
In AllianceBernstein L.P. v. Atha, (2012 NY Slip Op 07766)(Nov. 15, 2012), plaintiff was an investment firm alleging breach of contract and misappropriation of confidential information by the...
View ArticleEmail Chains Burn BP in Massive Plaintiff Multidistrict Litigation
Oil giant BP is facing a massive MDL lawsuit in the Lone Star state. Plaintiffs are 47,830 sick residents, plant contractors and workers from the Texas City, Texas area. A fire at the town’s BP oil...
View ArticleReviewing the Top 5 Plaintiff eDiscovery Cases of 2012
Our blog discusses the latest cases (good and bad) that affect plaintiff trial attorneys every week, and the following is our Top 5 Plaintiff eDiscovery cases of 2012: 5. Race Tires America, Inc. LLC...
View ArticleWhen the Duty to Preserve Evidence Arise for Allegations of eDiscovery...
In Bozic v. City of Washington, Pennsylvania (2012 WL 6050610)(W.D.Pa. Dec. 5, 2012) the plaintiff was a female firefighter and the defendant was the employer-city. Plaintiff had previously filed an...
View ArticleDefendants’ Motion to Compel Rigorous Social Media Discovery Searches From...
In In re: ZANTAC (RANITIDINE) PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION, No. 20-MD-2924 (S.D. FL Nov. 15, 2021) Defendants served the 10 named Class Plaintiffs with Requests for Production and Interrogatories...
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