Cases
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The Texas Supreme Court issued a major e-discovery opinion earlier this month, using a discovery dispute between homeowners and their insurer State Farm Lloyds to provide broad guidance for Texas litigants and judges on how to resolve disagreements over the form of production of electronically stored information.
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2011 WL 198117 (7th Cir. 2011) (Posner, J.) In part because of the Defendant’s refusal to cooperate, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s denial to compel discovery and ordered the matter returned "for consideration of discovery demands under Rule 26 and any other pertinent rules..." The case involved discovery in U.S. federal court for use in a...
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2011 WL 2038714 (N.D.Ill. May 24, 2011) (Cox, M.J.) The Plaintiff sought to shift the entire burden of searching after a previously unproduced email was discovered by its expert on the Defendants' computers. While the Court found that the "Defendants failed to produce a clearly relevant and accessible document" it did not find that this failure was deliberately in non- compliance with...
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2010 WL 1489996 (N.D.Ill. Apr. 13, 2010) (Nolan, M.J.) The Plaintiffs’ motion to compel production of documents was denied in part and granted in part. As it related to documents previously produced to the SEC, the Court was not persuaded by the Plaintiffs’ argument that a lack of production burden meant that it was time for a discovery free-for-all, and instead noted that “[t]he district court...
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2010 WL (N.D. Ill. November 17, 2010) (Nolan, M.J.) While the court denied the Defendant’s motion to stay all discovery, it did order a phased approach to discovery limiting the initial phase to the named parties and postponing nonparty discovery until “the parties have exhausted seeking the requested information from one another.” The court also ordered the parties to meet and confer in person...