In MEDIDATA SOLUTIONS, INC. ET AL. v. VEEVA SOLUTIONS, INC., N. 17 Civ. 589 (LSG) (S.D. NY, Sept. 22, 2021), before the Court was Plaintiffs’ spoliation sanctions in the form of an adverse inference. Plaintiffs claimed that Defendant spoliated evidence when Defendant failed to prevent one of its employees, Anthony Tsai (“Tsai”) from deleting data
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- ILS Team
- August 4, 2022
Motion for Spoliation Sanctions Denied In Light Of Failure To Prove Intent To Deprive
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- ILS Team
- July 28, 2022
Court Rules, In Part, That Emails Among Non-Attorneys In A Corporation Maybe Privileged If Made At Direction of Counsel To Gather Information To Aid Counsel in Providing Legal Services
In ALLGOOD v. BAPTIST MEMORIAL MEDICAL GROUP, INC., Case 2:19-cv-02323-SHM-cgc (W.D. Tenn. Jan. 3, 2022), before the Court was Plaintiff’s motion to compel production of Defendants’ purportedly privileged documents to the Court for in camera review. Plaintiff was employed by Defendant Baptist Memorial Medical Group. On Oct. 10, 2018, Plaintiff made a report to corporate
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- ILS Team
- July 21, 2022
Court Denied Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions After Finding Rule 37(e) Did Not Support Adverse Inference Instruction
In HAMRICK v. SPLASH TRANSPORT, INC., ET AL., No. 3:20-CV-00417-TRM-DCP (E.D. Tenn. Jan. 31, 2022), before the Court was Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions against Defendants. The action arose from a vehicular incident. Defendant Elmehalawy was the truck driver for Splash Transport, Inc. (“Splash”). Defendant James was the truck driver for Defendant Nandleen LLC. Plaintiff alleged
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- ILS Team
- July 15, 2022
Defendant Ordered To Produce Earlier-In-Time Emails That Were Part Of Most-Inclusive Email Threads Defendant Previously Produced
In IN RE ACTOS ANTITRUST LITIGATION, Master File No. 1:13-cv-09244 (RA) (SDA) (S.D. N.Y., March, 2022), before the Court was Plaintiffs’ Letter Motion that sought to compel Defendant to “(1) produce all nonprivileged, responsive earlier-in-time emails that are part of the most-inclusive email threads [Defendant] already has produced or will produce to Plaintiffs; and (2)
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- ILS Team
- July 11, 2022
Proportionality Not A Basis For Relevance Redactions
In KELLMAN v. WHOLE FOODS MARKET CALIFORNIA, INC., ET AL., Case No. 17-cv-06584-LB (N.D. Cal., Sept. 30, 2021), before the Court were several issues: First, to what extent could Defendants redact non-responsive and irrelevant information from their productions, and second, whether Defendants had sufficiently described in its privilege log documents which were redacted or withheld
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- ILS Team
- July 5, 2022
Court Rejects Defendants’ “Argument of Convenience to Avoid Sanctions”
In LEWIS v. BURL CAIN, ET AL., Civil No. 15-318-SDD-RLB (M.D. Louisiana, April 2022), before the Court was Plaintiffs’ Motion for Discovery Sanctions. The basis for Plaintiffs’ motion was their request for production of “complete medical records” of 67 class members. Plaintiffs moved for Sanctions for two reasons: “(1) the failure of the Defendants to
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- ILS Team
- June 30, 2022
Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Cause of Action for Spoliation Finding Sufficient Specificity In Plaintiff’s Complaint
In DEAN v. CITY OF KENOVA ET AL., Civil Action No. 3:21-0197 (S.D. WV, April 19, 2022), before the Court was Defendant Bob Sullivan’s Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s action for spoliation. Plaintiff was the administrator of Mr. James Dean’s estate following his death. Mr. Dean was arrested on April 5, 2019, by the Kenova Police
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- ILS Team
- June 17, 2022
Court Denied Defendant’s Motion for Review of the Clerk’s Taxation of E-Discovery Costs
In SUMOTEXT CORP., v. ZOOVE, INC., ET AL., Case No. 16-cv-01370-BLF (N.D. Cal. San Jose Div., Aug. 23, 2021), before the Court was Defendant’s Motion for Review of the Clerk’s Taxation of E-Discovery Costs. Defendant argued that the Clerk improperly denied its request for $14,804.00 in electronic discovery costs. On March 6, 2020, the jury
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- ILS Team
- June 9, 2022
Providing The Size Of Potentially Responsive Data After Performing Search by Gigabyte, Rather Than Document Hits, By a Third Party, Ruled Not In Bad Faith By Court
In RAVGEN, INC. v. STRECK, INC., No. 4:22CV3017 (D. Nebraska, March 29, 2022), before the Court was Plaintiff’s second motion to compel a third party’s response to subpoenas, Plaintiff’s request for attorney fees, and third party’s timeline for contemplated ESI search. On Feb. 4, 2022, Plaintiff filed a motion to compel responses to subpoenas served
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- ILS Team
- June 6, 2022
International Litigation Services Welcomes Joshua Rosenberg as President and CEO
Rosenberg is a highly accomplished legal veteran with proven track record in company growth Irvine, California – June 6, 2022 – International Litigation Services (ILS), a leading e-discovery service provider and ESI consultancy, today announced the appointment of Joshua Rosenberg as president and CEO. Rosenberg is a highly regarded industry veteran, having held a number
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