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Under Fed. R. Evid 502(d), a federal court can assure that an inadvertent disclosure of privileged documents in the case before it will not allow litigants in subsequent cases to argue that such disclosure triggered a...more
On April 29, 2025, United States District Judge John H. Chun of the Western District of Washington issued an order denying defendant Amazon’s request to claw back privileged documents it argued had inadvertently produced in...more
eDiscovery case law disputes are in full bloom! In our April 2025 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog we will discuss disputes related to proportionality of discovery requests, lack of cooperation...more
Default judgments as a sanction for discovery violations are rare. Egregious conduct and failure to comply with multiple court orders usually precede the entry of a default judgment. Originally published in The Daily...more
Federal and state rules of civil procedure are intended to secure the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action. However, one activity that can thwart that goal is discovery, because the discovery process is...more
Former President Donald J. Trump filed a motion to appoint a Special Master to review the material seized by the FBI from Mar-A-Lago. The stated purpose of the review by the Special Master is to remove nonrelevant and...more
Hard to believe, but it took until August 29, 2019 for the North Carolina Court of Appeals to tackle the issue of eDiscovery for the very first time. But tackle it the court did....more
Ruling on a motion seeking the return of inadvertently produced privilege materials, Judge Kaplan elaborated on the meaning of “inadvertent” in the context of Massachusetts Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(5) and so-called...more
When negotiating their respective privilege claims, litigants sometimes face the temptation to agree among themselves that producing some arguably protected withheld documents will not trigger a subject matter waiver...more
Despite the existence of a stipulated clawback agreement (that was never presented to the Court to be So Ordered) that provided “[i]nadvertent production of privileged documents does not operate as a waiver of that...more
In Allied v. OSMI, the Circuit affirms dismissal of a declaratory judgment action even though Allied’s Mexican distributors had been sued in Mexico on a corresponding Mexican patent. In a first Waymo v. Uber case, the panel...more