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February 28, 2018

Court Retains Jurisdiction to Issue Sanctions Against Defendant City Fire Department for Spoliation of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Case

In Dena Lewis-Bystrzycki v. City of Country Club Hills, No. 2012 L 009916, (Cir. Ct. Cook County, 2017), the Court ordered sanctions against the Defendants (collective) City of Country Club Hills Fire Department after it became apparent that Defendants had wiped data from a network storage drive for computer backups (by using anti-forensic tools and

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February 23, 2018

Court Partially Grants Plaintiff’s Motion for Sanctions for Spoliation in a Breach of Contract Dispute

In Hefter Impact Techs., LLC v. Sport Maska, Inc., No. 15-13290-FDS (D. Mass. Aug. 3, 2017), the Plaintiff Hefter Impact Technologies, LLC (“HIT”) sold its ice-hockey helmet design to the Defendant, Sport Maska, Inc., d/b/a Reebok — CCM Hockey (“CCM”). CCM agreed to pay HIT royalties on its helmets based on the original HIT design.

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February 21, 2018

Court Encourages Plaintiff to Craft a Narrower, More Targeted Discovery Request Through Depositions

In Rembrandt Diagnostics LLP v. Innovacon, Inc., No. 3:16-cv-0698 CAB (NLS), (S.D. Cal. Oct. 3, 2017), the dispute was over drug-testing cups for screening urine samples. The Plaintiff, Rembrandt Diagnostics, LP (“Rembrandt”), alleged that the Defendant, Innovacon, Inc. (“Innovacon”), breached the patent license agreement established between both companies’ predecessors. Innovacon argued that it did not

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February 12, 2018

Court Denies Defendant’s Motion for Spoliation; Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Plaintiff

In IBM v. Naganayagam, No. 15-cv-7991, (S.D.N.Y. 2017), Plaintiff filed a motion for summary judgment and Defendant filed a cross-action pursuant to Rule 37 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for spoliation sanctions. In this action, the Plaintiff sought to rescind several Equity Award Agreements (“EAAs”) given to Defendant during his employment. EEAs are

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February 9, 2018

Court Rejects Defendant’s Claim He Does Not Have Control of Responsive Documents: Court Says Custody and Control Compels Production

In Rabang, et al., v. Kelly et al., No. 2:17-cv-00088-JCC, U.S. Dist. Ct. (W.D. Wash. 2017) the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington compelled the Defendants to produce multiple documents after, as the Court described, Defendants stonewalled Plaintiffs in their requests. Defendant has refused to produce responsive documents in his possession,

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February 7, 2018

Court Denies Motion For Corporate Email, ESI as Premature For Failure to Comply With Meet & Confer Requirements

Kellgren v. Petco Animal Supplies, Inc., No. 3:13-cv-644L-KSC, (S.D. Cal. March 10, 2017) is a collective litigation in which plaintiffs Erik Kellgren (“Kellgren”) and others employed as Assistant Managers in Defendants’ stores claim to have been misclassified as “exempt” from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The central issues in the case relate

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February 5, 2018

Court Demands Specificity in Motions to Compel Discovery

In Doctors Pathology Servs., PA v. Gerges, C.A. No 11457-CB (Del. Ch. Feb. 15, 2017), the court demanded that parties be specific as to which discovery requests were problematic, including providing specific numbers of discovery requests listed in the Motion to Compel. Here, Plaintiff had sued a former employee and the employee’s new medical practice

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January 19, 2018

Court Orders Adverse Inference Instruction Against District of Columbia For Failing to Preserve Potentially Relevant Emails

In Nunnally v. Dist. of Columbia, 243 F. Supp. 3d 55 (D.C. 2017), the Court granted in part and denied in part Plaintiff’s motion for sanctions due to spoliation of evidence by Defendant. In 2004, Ronda Nunnally (“Nunnally”), a Lieutenant in the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”), filed a complaint with MPD alleging sexual

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January 10, 2018

Defendant Asks Court to Compel Plaintiff to Return Privileged Documents Inadvertently Produced During Discovery. Court Declines, Agreeing with Plaintiff that Inadvertent Production Twice Waived Privilege

In Irth Solutions, LLC v. Windstream Commc’ns, LLC, No. 2:16-cv-219 (S.D. Ohio 2017), a discovery dispute arose out of state court lawsuit filed in January 2016, involving allegations of breach of contract, balance due on an account, unjust enrichment, promissory estoppel, fraud, and violation of a license agreement. The ensuing discovery dispute originated from the parties’