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Standard for Court-Ordered Forensic Examinations – When Does Misconduct “Cross the Rubicon”?

A motion for a forensic examination was granted in PlayUp, Inc. v. Mintas, 2025 WL 2017161 (D. Nev. Jul. 18, 2025). On movant’s third try, the court found that the opponent was trying to “gaslight” the court and it granted...more

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Going Mobile: Recent Mobile Device Case Law Trends, Part 2

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Disputes related to the relevance and accessibility of the data are one of the most common types of disputes regarding mobile devices. Another common type of dispute is typical with all sources of electronically stored...more

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Ready to File a Motion for Sanctions? Make Sure You Tell the Court.

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Filing a motion for sanctions under Rule 37(e) requires a strong evidentiary foundation. But there's another factor that's just as critical — timing. Courts have broad discretion in how they handle sanctions, and...more

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September’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery

[Editor’s Note: This article was first published September 25, 2024, and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those...more

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This Week in eDiscovery: Case Studies on Reasonable Preservation and Hyperlinked Documents

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of September 16-22. Here’s what’s...more

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Antitrust Sanctions: The Duty to Preserve Chats

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On August 5, 2024, District Judge Amit P. Mehta (U.S. District Court, District of Columbia) ruled in United States v. Google LLC that Google violated §2 of the Sherman Act by monopolizing the internet search engine market....more

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April’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery

[Editor’s Note: This article was first published April 17, 2024 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of the...more

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October’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery

[Editor’s Note: This article was first published October 18, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of...more

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Spoliation and Failure to Disclose: What Gets Swept Under the Rug in FTC Investigations Lands in a Dangerous Pit

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Once a company or individual learns they are a target of a Federal Trade Commission investigation, they need to quickly make a series of decisions, then take action. After being notified that the FTC has begun an...more

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Weekly Trend Report – 3/27/2019 Insights

Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t...more

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2018 eDiscovery Case Law Review, Part 2

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Now is a great time to look back on 2018's most influential eDiscovery cases. Part two of this four-part series covers cases pertaining to preservation, spoliation, and sanctions....more

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Bad Behavior in eDiscovery is Still Very Costly!

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...For those of us who practice regularly in the ediscovery realm, the December 1, 2015 amendment to Rule 37(e) was a much needed game-changer. In simple terms, amended Rule 37(e) eliminated the risk of the severest sanctions...more

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5 Practice Tips for Protecting Your Clients & Your Reputation

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Kilpatrick Townsend Senior E-Discovery Attorney Katie King recently participated in an E-Discovery Sanctions webinar, where she shared the following tips to protect your clients and your reputation: Sanctions and their...more

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Courts Are Closely Following Amended Rule 37(e)’s Limits on Sanctions for Lost Electronically Stored Information

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Within two years of its implementation, several cases show that amended Rule 37(e) is having its intended impact, as judges are carefully applying the criteria articulated in the Rule prior to ordering curative measures or...more

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If Evidence In Its Original Form Is No Longer Available – But A Copy Of That Evidence Is – Are Spoliation Sanctions Appropriate?

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In Barcroft Media, Ltd. et al. v. Coed Media Grp., LLC, No. 16-CV-7634 (JMF) (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 28, 2017), Plaintiffs – providers of entertainment-related photojournalism and owners of celebrity photographs – interposed various...more

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eDiscovery Includes Electronic Vehicle Data and Possible Sanctions for Spoliation

Discovery of relevant material extends far beyond documents created on personal computers. Discoverable data exists in many forms, including electronic data found in vehicles such as tractors used for tractor-trailers. This...more

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4 E-Discovery Strategies for GCs Under the "New" Federal Rules

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When the cost of e-discovery drives case strategy, it is time to re-evaluate priorities. The U.S. Supreme Court and Congress agreed and amended several of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in December 2015 in light of...more

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Why Courts Should Not Go 'Over and Above' the Federal Rules to Impose Sanctions for Loss of ESI

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A recent case offers a cautionary tale of how courts may cite to the requirements of amended Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 37(e), which governs imposing sanctions for failure to preserve electronically stored information...more

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Lack Of Prejudice Results In Limited Sanction Against Defendant

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In one of the first cases interpreting newly amended Fed. R. Civ. P. 37, F.T.C. v. DirecTV, Inc., 15-cv-01129-HSG, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 176873 (N.D. Cal. Dec. 21, 2016), Magistrate Judge Maria Elena James of the Northern...more

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Sanctions Under FED. R. CIV. P. 37(E)

In December 2015, amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect. One of the amended rules, Rule 37(e), was completely rewritten in an attempt to develop a uniform, national standard for the imposition...more

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E-Discovery Update: Changes to Rule 37’s Failure-to-Preserve-ESI Sanctions Impact Recent Rulings

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For years, companies have battled different sanction standards for the failure to preserve documents. This led to over-preservation, where, to avoid accusations of “negligent” failure, companies preserved every shred of...more

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Gavel to Gavel: Federal rules amended

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Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure went into effect Dec. 1. These amendments are designed to save litigants time and money by reducing delay, encouraging courts to limit discovery, sharpening the scope of...more

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ESI & eDiscovery FRCP Changes @ 12/1/15 — While You Were Leftover-Eating

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Introduction: Now that you’ve likely had your fill of turkey sandwiches, turkey salad, turkey soup and the like, there is a new development on which to focus. On midnight December 1, 2015 the eDiscovery-related Federal Rules...more

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Proposed Amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Include Limitations on Discovery and Spoliation Sanctions, Published for...

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The costs that parties incur in the broils of litigation have been on the front burner in recent years, with the temperature rising. In 2010, the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules sponsored a Conference on...more

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