West Plains, LLC v. Retzlaff Grain Co., No. 8:13CV47, 2014 WL 2515198 (D. Neb. June 3, 2014)

Key Insight: Where plaintiff produced thousands of documents on disc and in hard copy, and divided some of the electronic documents into files on the disc but otherwise provided no indices to guide defendants to responsive materials, court found plaintiff?s responses insufficient and ordered plaintiff to produce index or other tool to guide defendants to the documents responsive to each individual request for production

Nature of Case: Company sued competitor, and former employees who had resigned to join competitor, for misappropriation of confidential business information, tortious interference with business relationships, and related claims

Electronic Data Involved: ESI produced on disc