Key Insight: Refusal to produce documents. Clergy-penitent privilege
Nature of Case: Negligence and failure to warn (Sexual Abuse)
Electronic Data Involved: letter,email, fax,ESI
Keywords: Willful refusal to comply with discovery order; Monetary sanctions; Judicial estoppel
Key Insight: Should a court order a new trial as a discovery sanction to a party’s failure to produce documents?
Nature of Case: Wrongful death
Electronic Data Involved: Health documents
Keywords: New trial, Discovery misconduct, seasonably supplement
Key Insight: conducting firm business on personal email accounts, employees’ personal email account will be subject to discovery if the employers allow them to mingle their work and personal email accounts.
Nature of Case: workplace discrimination, class action
Electronic Data Involved: personal email accounts, 115,000 documents, 2.5 terabytes of data of 25 custodians
Keywords: interspersing work and personal emails, overlap, spoliation, pay discrimination, wrongful termination
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