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Court Order Not Clearly Erroneous After Finding Plaintiff Took Reasonable Steps to Identify and Produce Relevant Documents
In ALIVECOR, INC., v. APPLE, INC., Case No. 21-cv-03958-JSW (N.D. California, Feb. 23, 2023), before the Court was Defendant’s motion for relief from a non-dispositive discovery order. This dispute arose out of the parties’ decision to utilize technology assisted review (“TAR”) to locate and produce ESI material in response to
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Motion for Sanctions Denied After Finding Defendant Met Discovery Deadlines and Promptly Notified Plaintiff of Errors
In FLUOR FEDERAL SOLUTIONS, LLC v. BAE SYSTEMS ORDNANCE SYSTEMS, INC., Case No. 7:19-cv-698 (W.D. VA, Feb. 7, 2023), Plaintiff sought sanctions against Defendant to recover the fees and costs of re-deposing five witnesses after Defendant produced approximately eighty thousand documents mistakenly withheld due to an e-discovery vendor error. This
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Motion for Sanctions Denied Based On Court’s Lack of Inherent Authority to Sanction And Where Parties Did Not Engage In A Rule 37(e) Analysis
In MONARREZ v. WAL-MART STORES, INC., Case No. 2:21-cv-00431-ART-DJA (D. Nev., Feb. 22, 2023), before the court was Plaintiff’s motion for spoliation sanctions. Plaintiff argued Defendants failed to preserve the original version of the customer report incident, which would have been made on one of the Defendants’ iPads and failed
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Motion to Compel Linear Review of Text Messages And Complete Production of Calendar Entries Without Application of Search Terms Denied
In IN RE:DIISOCYANATES ANTITRUST LITIGATION, Master Docket Misc. No. 18-1001, MDL No. 2862 (Jan. 26, 2023, W.D. Pennsylvania), Plaintiffs sought an order compelling Certain Defendants to produce text messages (after only a linear review) and the full calendars of approximately 45 custodians covering a five-year period pursuant to their First
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Defendants’ Motion to Compel Production of Search Terms Denied
In IMPRIMISRX v. OSRX, INC., Case No. 21-cv-1305-BAS-DDL (S.D. CA, Dec. 19, 2022), before the Court was Defendants’ Motion to Compel Production of Search Terms (“Motion”). Defendants sought an order compelling Plaintiff to disclose the sources, methodology, and search terms used to collect emails and other documents from Plaintiff’s president,
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Court Denies Plaintiff’s Motion to Compel After Finding Defendant’s Video Recording of Witness was Attorney Work Product
In CHANEY v. KEEGO HARBOR POLICE DEPT., Case No. 21-11662 (Jan. 5, 2023, Mich.), before the court was Plaintiff’s motion to compel. Plaintiff filed this civil rights matter on July 16, 2021. Plaintiff alleged violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution and tort claims under
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Motion for Sanctions Denied in Part After Court Found That Ten Circuit’s Factors Did Not Weigh in Favor of Awarding Sanctions in the Form of Entry of Factual Findings
In UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, EX REL. MARGARARET MCGUINN v. THE J.L. GRAY COMPANY, ET. AL., No. 2:20-cv-31 KG/KRS (D. New Mexico, July 27, 2022), before the Court was Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions. Plaintiff alleged that Defendants made false claims to secure funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural
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Court Denied Plaintiff’s Request for Terminating Sanctions After Finding, Among Others, that Plaintiff Failed to Show the Requisite Intent Required Under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 37(e)
In PAULY v. STANFORD HEALTH CARE, Case No. 18-cv-05387-SI (N.D. Cal, Sept. 12, 2022), before the Court was Plaintiff’s objections to Magistrate Judge Hixson’s denial of Plaintiff’s motion for terminating sanctions against Defendant. Plaintiff filed her objection to Judge Hixson’s Report and Recommendation and objected to the following findings: “(1)
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Court Affirmed Magistrate Judge’s Orders Imposing Costs for Expenses Incurred in Connection with TAR Process
In LAWSON v. SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS, INC., Case No. 18-1100-EFM (D. Kansas, Oct. 18, 2021), before the Court was Plaintiff’s Appeal from the Magistrate Judge’s orders that shifted and fixed the amount of e-discovery expenses against Plaintiff. On June 18, 2020, the Magistrate Judge previously granted Defendant’s motion to shift TAR
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Court Denies Appeal of Magistrate Judge’s Order Denying Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence and Pattern of Discovery Abuse
In COOLEY v. TARGET CORPORATION ET AL., Civil No. 20-2152 (DWF/DTS) (D. Minn. Aug. 24, 2022), a case involving a copyright dispute, Plaintiff objected to the Magistrate Judge’s order dated June 10, 2022, that denied her Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation of Evidence and Pattern of Discovery Abuse. As an