Archive - 2019

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Wilmoth v. Murphy (District Court of Western District of Arkansas, 2019)
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Wilmoth v. Deputy Austin Murphy (W.D. Ark., 2019)
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Pentel v. Shepard, No. 18-cv-1447 (NEB/TNL) (D. Minn. Aug. 7, 2019).
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Pentel et al v. Shepard et al (D. Minn., 2019)
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In re Everquote, Inc. Securities Litigation (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cnty., 2019)
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Crosmun v. Trustees of Fayetteville Technical Community College (N.C. Ct. App., 2019)
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Cox v. Swift Transportation Co. of Arizona, LLC (N.D. Okla., 2019)
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In Re Dentsply Sirona, Inc. Shareholders Litigation (Supreme Court of NY State, 2019)
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In re Petrobras Sec. Litig., No. 14-cv-9662 (United States District Court Souther District of New York, 2019)
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Laub v. Horbaczewski, No. 2:17-CV-06210 JAK (KSx) (C.D. Cal. July 30, 2019).

Wilmoth v. Murphy (District Court of Western District of Arkansas, 2019)

Key Insight: whether the defendant took reasonable steps to preserve the relevant evidence and whether the defendant?s actions in this case support a finding that the defendant acted with the intent to deprive another party of the information?s use in the litigation

Nature of Case: personal injury

Electronic Data Involved: deleted photographs

Keywords: sand, egregious

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Wilmoth v. Deputy Austin Murphy (W.D. Ark., 2019)

Key Insight: whether negative inference warranted where pictures taken on personal cell phone pursuant to protocol which became lost or destroyed

Nature of Case: excessive force – prison

Electronic Data Involved: cell phone pictures

Keywords: work image on personal cell phone

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Pentel v. Shepard, No. 18-cv-1447 (NEB/TNL) (D. Minn. Aug. 7, 2019).

Key Insight: Plaintiff requested access records to determine potential class members. Court denied as unduly burdensome to non-party and unlikely to produce relevant information.

Nature of Case: Privacy

Electronic Data Involved: Driver License Database Access Records

Keywords: access records, non-party, burden

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Pentel et al v. Shepard et al (D. Minn., 2019)

Key Insight: audit returns requested not proportional since massive burden to non-party

Nature of Case: Driver’s Privacy Protection Act

Electronic Data Involved: LEMS audit returns

Keywords: judge warns of sanctions

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Crosmun v. Trustees of Fayetteville Technical Community College (N.C. Ct. App., 2019)

Key Insight: whether ESI protocol order directing party to turn over potentially privileged information without chance for review proper

Nature of Case: Retaliation – NC Whistleblower Protection Act

Electronic Data Involved: Backup and deleted records located on work computers and servers

Keywords: privilege; involuntary waiver

Identified State Rule(s): N.C. R. Civ. P. 26(b)

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Cox v. Swift Transportation Co. of Arizona, LLC (N.D. Okla., 2019)

Key Insight: whether sanctions are appropriate where data on tracking device subject to automatic deletion which occurred before spoliation notice

Nature of Case: personal injury – vehicle accident

Electronic Data Involved: electronic control module (ECM)

Keywords: tracking device

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In Re Dentsply Sirona, Inc. Shareholders Litigation (Supreme Court of NY State, 2019)

Key Insight: Whether the stay of discovery provision can be applied to state court cases.

Nature of Case: Violations of the Securities Act of 1933

Electronic Data Involved: Stay of discovery pending a motion to dismiss

Keywords: stay of discovery, PSLRA, state v. federal court

Identified State Rule(s): PSLRA

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Laub v. Horbaczewski, No. 2:17-CV-06210 JAK (KSx) (C.D. Cal. July 30, 2019).

Key Insight: Did not withhold irrelevant texts. Judge denied clawback for relevance.

Nature of Case: Contract

Electronic Data Involved: Text Messages

Keywords: clawback, relevance

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