eDiscovery California: Social Media Laws Take Effect Jan. 1, 2013
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View ArticleNorthern District of California Unveils E-Discovery Guidelines
Take note, federal court practitioners: The Northern District of California really wants you to play nice when it comes to e-discovery. The district on Tuesday unveiled new guidelines for handling...
View ArticleSenate Committee Passes E-Mail Privacy Legislation
The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed an update of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Privacy advocates and civil liberties groups applauded the action, saying the law was outdated in an...
View ArticleSCA & Admissibility of Text Messages
A Defendant convicted of murder and attempted murder challenged the admission of three text messages at his trial. The Supreme Court of Arkansas found no error in admitting the text messages. The...
View ArticleA new definition of relevance in US eDiscovery?
The US may be about to see a change to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which brings their rules about the scope of discovery / disclosure closer to those which have obtained in England and Wales...
View ArticleDelaware Court of Chancery Updates E-Discovery Guidelines
New rules emphasize the court's expectations that senior lawyers will lead e-discovery discussions The Delaware Court of Chancery recently announced that it is updating its Rules 26, 30, 34, and 45,...
View ArticleDelaware Court of Chancery Issues Updated eDiscovery Guidelines
The Delaware Court of Chancery is amending its Rules 26, 30, 34, and 45 in order to update provisions relating to the retention and discovery of electronically stored information. The Court is also...
View ArticleBinding Corporate Rules for processors launched
Data processors are now able to apply to use Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs) in order to move personal data outside of the European Economic Area while complying with European data protection...
View ArticleOn Remand, Court Finds Rambus’ Spoliation was in Bad Faith and Resulted in...
Summary: Micron Tech., Inc. v. Rambus, Inc., No. 00-792-SLR (D. Del. Jan. 2, 2013) Following remand from the Federal Circuit, the District Court considered the question of “whether Rambus acted in bad...
View ArticleUncertainty means expense as we wait for the Jackson rules
An article by Neil Rose on the litigationfutures site is headed 10 weeks until Jackson and still no rules: LSLA chief warns of chaos. The reference is obviously to the wide-ranging reforms to the Civil...
View ArticleThe Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 relating to disclosure and case...
The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules were published yesterday. They cover a wide range of matters, all to take effect on 1 April (subject to certain specific transitional provisions relating to...
View ArticleA New Avenue For E-Discovery Cost Recovery
E-discovery is often one of the largest expenses of litigation. In recent years, some prevailing parties in federal court have found a successful avenue for recovering those costs through a provision...
View ArticleEurope Wants eDiscovery Standards
The eDiscovery process has been employed by businesses and government organizations for many years, but few and far between have developed standards for it. In an exciting and surprising news brief...
View ArticleIn Minnesota, Amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure Highlight...
On February 4, 2013, the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota adopted amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure, including those affecting discovery. Of particular note were amendments to Rules 1...
View ArticleNew York Court Adopts Federal Standard Regarding Initial Costs of ESI
In February 2012, the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, held that the cost of finding of producing electronically stored information (ESI) is placed initially on the...
View ArticleData retention, governance and privacy
There has been a lot of coverage in recent months over the Australian Federal Governments proposition to implement a data retention policy. The debate is polarising and highly emotive, similar to that...
View ArticleCourt Imposes Rule 16(f)(1) Sanctions against EEOC for Causing Unnecessary...
EEOC v. The Original Honeybaked Ham Co. of Georgia, Inc., No. 11-cv-02560-MSK-MEH (D. Colo. Feb. 27, 2013) Previously in this case, the court ordered broad discovery of the claimants’ social media,...
View ArticleeDJ’s First Predictive Coding Boot Camp A Roaring Success
eDiscoveryJournal’s first Predictive Coding Boot Camp was phenomenally successful. Led by adjunct analyst Karl Schieneman – one of the foremost Predictive Coding experts around, the Boot Camp featured...
View ArticleProposed FRCP Amendments
Henry Kelston of the Legal Intelligencer provides a useful summary of the amendments to the FRCP that were recently proposed by the United States Courts’ Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. The rules...
View ArticleInternational Standard Project for E-Discovery Approved – Law.com – Law.com
Law.comInternational Standard Project for E-Discovery Approved - Law.comLaw.comAs currently envisioned, the e-discovery standard will be a guidance standard that addresses terminology, provides an...
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