Archive - August 25, 2017

CFPB v. Universal Debt Solutions, LLC, et al. (District Court of Georgia, 2017)

Aug 25 2017

Key Insight: violation of repeated discovery orders warrants the substantial sanction of dismissing the counts.

Nature of Case: Massive debt-collection scheme

Keywords: payment processor, debt collector, collector, robo-call.

Harper v. City of Dallas (N.D. Tex., 2017)

Aug 25 2017

Key Insight: Court refused to grant relief under 37(e) because moving party failed to show that ESI was lost because of a failure to take reasonable steps/

Nature of Case: wrongful death, unlawful arrest

Electronic Data Involved: email, telephone recordings

Keywords: Reasonable steps, sanctions, deleted ESI

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