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Recent eDiscovery rulings from the first quarter of 2025 reveal courts grappling with redaction practices, cross-border data transfer tensions, evolving artificial intelligence (AI) usage in litigation, and increasing...more
Last week US District Court Judge Richard Andrews rejected two separate parties’ filings in the District of Delaware because portions were redacted in their entirety. This practice applies universally to all District of...more
Veronica Morales, a wedding/event planner providing services under the trademark BLUE IVY, has unsuccessfully challenged a pending application for the mark BLUE IVY CARTER, filed by BGK Trademark Holdings, LLC (Beyoncé...more
The District of New Jersey confirmed that members of a corporate family all are represented by the same in-house counsel, whether that counsel occupies an office within the parent company or within a subsidiary, because...more
A recent decision from one of New York’s trial courts of general jurisdiction could have a chilling effect on written communications between an insurer and its retained counsel during a claim investigation. In Otsuka...more
With the proliferation of workplace and personal electronically stored information (“ESI”) these days, it may be a scary proposition for any litigant to deal with the preservation, collection, review, and production of this...more
The ninth edition of The E-Discovery Digest focuses on recent decisions addressing the scope and application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, spoliation, and discovery responses....more
On February 13, 2018, the New York Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that a user's "private" Facebook messages and photos are subject to disclosure where that information is "reasonably calculated to contain evidence...more
A Facebook user’s privacy settings cannot determine the discoverability of relevant evidence, held New York’s high court, the Court of Appeals. In a unanimous decision, Forman v. Henkin, — NY3d —, 2018 N.Y. Slip Op. 01015,...more
Electronic discovery cases that made headlines in 2017 featured well-known names such as Taylor Swift and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and reached all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the year draws to a close, it’s a good time to...more
On June 6, 2017, the First Department had an opportunity to apply—and reaffirm—last month’s decision in Peerenboom v. Marvel Entm’t, LLC, where the Court held that use of a company email system for personal purposes “does...more