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Lawsuits brought in the U.S. that result in judgments against Chinese companies often have problems with enforceability, unless the Chinese company has assets in the US or assets in another country that enforces US judgments....more
An unusually detailed ruling on various pretrial motions in limine...more
As everyone’s well aware, social media evidence is often brought suits in areas like family and workers’ compensation—ones where a key message or picture could change the entire outcome of the case. But what’s interesting is...more
Recognized nationally in Forbes’ Law and Technology Blog as a leading source of trusted eDiscovery information, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange newsletter is published weekly to provide legal and technology...more
From the preliminary statement: "For all its bluster, Rosetta’s opposition to Campmor’s motion in limine falls unsurprisingly short on substance – and never comes close to demonstrating why the jury in this complex...more
This brief opposed a motion by defendant to essentially, we argued, relitigate key issues in the case. The court agreed with the vast majority of our opposition, as demonstrated by the order entered on this motion and linked...more
Memorandum of law in opposition to defendant's ultimately unsuccessful motion to limit key evidence of lost profits and other damages in amounts beyond the stated contract limitations. We demonstrated that under Ohio law,...more
Brief in opposition to several motions in limine brought by defendant in this action. ...more
The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Montana in connection with In re Southern Montana Electric Generation and Transmission Cooperative, Inc. held that electricity was a “good” for purposes of section...more
The term “cloud computing” has been tossed about as the new trend in IT. Unfortunately, just as often has you hear the term echoed as the “next big thing” a comprehensible definition rarely follows. So what is cloud...more
Preserving company E-mail that may be relevant in litigation is important for every business. Failure to do so can open a company to liability for breaching the duty to preserve evidence. Sending a notice to employees who...more
New E-Discovery Guidelines related to the discovery of electronically stored information (“ESI”) have been approved by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Find the Guidelines and related documents...more
From the preliminary statement: "Plaintiff Campmor, Inc. (“Campmor”) submits this memorandum of law in support of its motion for an order, pursuant to Federal Rules of Evidence 401, 402 and 403, excluding from trial all...more
Part Four in a multi-part series on the topic. Searching for evidence in the form of email, text messages and instant messaging is increasingly important in lawsuits. However, requests for this type of evidence during the...more
Part Three in a multi-part series on the topic. In Part One of this series, we discussed California’s Electronic Discovery Act. Part Two discussed the importance in legal proceedings of electronic information from social...more
Part Two in a multi-part series on the topic. In Part One of this series, we discussed California’s Electronic Discovery Act, which established procedures for parties to discover electronically stored information (“ESI”)...more
California’s Electronic Discovery Act was signed into law on June 29, 2009, establishing procedures for parties to discover electronically stored information (“ESI”) from opposing parties for use as evidence in state court...more
We recently talked about how judges may deny overly broad discovery requests and the effect of performing ineffective searches on data. Well, what happens if a party creates the perfect search, reviews the documents that are...more
Patrick Kellermann from LeClairRyan, an expert in e-discovery and data compliance issues, joins us again as a contributor. His profile can be viewed here {see alert for link}. In all honesty, document collection and...more
Congress has been struggling with cyber security issues for several years, most recently in connection with the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (CSA2012). CSA2012 is an attempt to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure...more
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