Tag:Taxable Costs

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BDT Prods., Inc. v. Lexmark Int., Inc., 405 F.3d 415 (6th Cir. 2005)
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Stark v. PPM Am., Inc., 2003 WL 21223268 (N.D. Ill. May 23, 2003)

BDT Prods., Inc. v. Lexmark Int., Inc., 405 F.3d 415 (6th Cir. 2005)

Key Insight: Court approved recover of taxable costs, including ?electronic scanning and imaging of documents? where declarations established that the costs were ?necessarily incurred? and where ?electronic scanning and imaging could be interpreted as ?exemplification and copies of papers??costs specifically allowed under the relevant statute

Electronic Data Involved: ESI

Stark v. PPM Am., Inc., 2003 WL 21223268 (N.D. Ill. May 23, 2003)

Key Insight: Court denied successful defendant’s petition for costs associated with its outside vendor’s compilation, search and production of 50,000 emails on grounds that such costs were not listed as recoverable costs in 28 USC ? 1920

Nature of Case: Petition for attorneys’ fees and non-taxable costs under fee-shifting provision of ERISA

Electronic Data Involved: Emails

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