Source: https://www.naag.org/publications/nagtri-newsletters/electronic-discovery-bulletin/electronic-discovery-bulletin-september-2018.php
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 04:05:43+00:00

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Not to be missed is eDiscovery expert Craig Ball’s new posting on Drafting Digital Forensic Examination Protocols. Note this excerpt: "Crafting a forensic examination protocol demands more than finding a good form to filch. It requires a clear sense of what you seek to accomplish through an examination and the ability to express those goals with enough technical specificity to guide a diligent examiner to the artifacts that will answer your questions. There's often a tension between one side's wish to rein the examiner in and the others' to turn the examiner loose. A good protocol balances the two and affords the examiner just enough discretion to follow the electronic evidence and let it tell its tale."
The ABA Litigation News featured an article on guidance for privilege analysis written by Josephine Bahn of the FDIC. It focuses on the Sodexomagic, LLC v. Drexel University case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
An article by eDiscovery provider D4 outlines the key elements and platforms that should be included when creating a data map. The article also includes links to additional articles for more intensive coverage.
EDiscovery provider CloudNine is hosting a free webinar on Preparing for Litigation Before It Happens on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 1 pm ET. Topics include recommendations for implementing an information governance program, basic information governance solutions and information governance vs. analytics. Register here.
Another must-read is an article on SaaS (software as a service) data in civil litigation by eDiscovery provider Percipient. Percipient makes the point that courts expect attorneys to understand the software used by their clients. It also notes that extra steps may be needed to preserve information in SaaS applications, and information from SaaS applications not ordinarily accessed by users may have to be produced.
In Lawrence v. City of New York, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the City’s motion to dismiss, finding that the metadata showed that plaintiff created the photographs two years after the alleged incident to bolster her claims, and then falsely testified about them.
In City of Rockford v. Mallinckrodt ARD Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois adopted the parties’ proposed order establishing the production protocol for ESI, including the plaintiffs’ proposal that a random sample of the null set will be taken after the production and that any responsive documents found as a result of that process will be produced.
In Halleen v. Belk, Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the defendant had waived its objections to the plaintiffs’ RFPs and interrogatories by including “subject to” boilerplate language in its responses.
In Gould v. Farmers Insurance Exchange, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel two non-party Farmers Insurance agents to comply with subpoenas and produce documents pertaining to text messages that they allegedly sent to potential customers, rejecting their argument that compliance would violate their Fifth Amendment right against compelled, self-incriminating testimony.
In Hernandez v. City of Houston, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, finding that the defendant intentionally destroyed evidence by wiping the hard drives of several custodians no longer employed by the City, determined that an adverse inference finding against the defendant was appropriate.

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