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The Scope of Social Media in Plaintiff ESI Production
Litigants and courts struggle to define the scope of electronic data discovery, as well as the logistics of how to physically produce the electronically stored information. The newest scope and logistical challenges for ESI now lies in social media content. In EEOC v. Simply Storage Management, LLC Case No. 1:09-cv-1223-WTL-DML
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Does the Future of Plaintiff ESI Production Include Facebook?
A Pennsylvania judge recently issued an expansive ruling about electronically stored information (ESI) and the growing trend for defendants to request plaintiffs’ Facebook passwords in the case of Trail v. Lesko, No. GD-10-017249 (C.P. Alleg. Co. July 3, 2012 Wettick, J). The court looked at numerous Pennsylvania cases with eDiscovery
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D.C. Bar Green Lights eDiscovery Services in Ethics Opinion
The production of electronically stored information (ESI) in litigation has boomed in the last decade, mainly due to the slow but steady global switch from paper documentation to electronic data. As ESI is now part of almost every class action lawsuit and multidistrict litigation case, the courts and bar associations
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Plaintiff Programmatic Issue Coding: The Scalpel of Document Review Tools
Anyone who keeps up with eDiscovery rules and law knows that a district court has affirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck’s judicial order in Monique Da Silva Moore v. MSL Group, No. 11 Civ. 1279 (ALC)(AJP) (S.D.N.Y. 2012). In the case, Magistrate Judge Peck pronounced, “Computer assisted review is