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Court Denies Defendant’s Request for Protective Order Against Producing Metadata for Medical Records: eDiscovery Case Law

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Madden, despite the defendant’s estimated cost of $250,000 to produce metadata related to the plaintiff’s medical records, denied the defendant’s motion for a protective order and granted the plaintiff’s cross-motion to compel the production of that metadata within 30 days of the decision and order. Case Background. Judge’s Ruling.

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Twenty-One Points, Less Than 350 Words: eDiscovery Best Practices

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As Craig notes in the latest blog post on his terrific Ball in Your Court blog ( Electronic Storage in a Nutshell ), he finished the E-Discovery Workbook for the 2019 Georgetown E-Discovery Training Academy (which we covered here ). Do you feel you have an adequate understanding of technical concepts like electronic storage?

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2017 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 2

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Give me my metadata! million judgment when metadata showed that the performance evaluation cited in his dismissal was actually created after he was terminated: Court Orders Plaintiff to Produce Native Format Version of Email Potentially Altered : In Lifetouch National School Studios, Inc. Metadata Plays Key Role in $10.8

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Even with Bad Communication and Unfulfilled Discovery Obligations, Sanctions Still Not Granted: eDiscovery Case Law

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It was also charged that the relators intentionally deleted computer files concerning these conversations and threw away the computer on which the files were stored, thereby precluding examination of the relevant metadata. He then testified he had no independent recollection of the substance of these calls.

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eDiscovery for the Rest of Us: eDiscovery Best Practices, Part Two

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Throughout the case, the plaintiff claimed that the evidence needed to prove the case existed in emails stored on UBS’ own computer systems. That case and the subsequent rule changes effectively forced civil litigants into a compliance mode with respect to their proper retention and management of electronically stored information (ESI).

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Court Orders Defendants to Produce Laptop for Forensic Examination – Again: eDiscovery Case Law

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Kutsomarkos provided pdf versions of documents from the laptop…However, the pdf files scrubbed the metadata from the documents and that metadata should be available on the hard drives…Also, the computer in Garrett was a personal computer, but here the computer was Ms. Judge Sansone also stated: “Since Ms.

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Why Does Production Have to be Such a Big Production?, Part Three

eDiscovery Daily

We also frequently see productions that don’t have the corresponding metadata fields to aid in filtering and searching the production sets, but then counsel becomes frustrated when they can’t accurately search for dates, recipients, file names or other useful metadata fields. So, what seems to be the problem?