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Nextpoint, Inc.

Key Discovery Points: Don’t Get Caught with Your Hand in the Production Cookie Jar

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In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint and Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today unpack a court’s bold move in the Meta Pixel healthcare case – ordering the production of third-party cookie data tied to...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Just When You Thought You Understood ESI…

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Riddle me this: Is a document that resides on your network and which you embed in an email via a hyperlink the functional equivalent of an attachment to that email? Magistrate Judge Katherine H. Parker, in a recent...more

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Can The Content Of My Privilege Log Jeopardize My Privilege Claim?

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Rule 26(b)(5) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides that, when a party withholds information otherwise discoverable by claiming the information is privileged or subject to protection as trial-preparation material,...more

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Judge Rakoff Unseals Documents in Petrobras Securities Class Action To Allow Use in Foreign Arbitration, Bypassing Traditional...

Years after Plaintiffs brought a federal securities complaint against Petrobras, and more than a year after the case settled for approximately $3 billion, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the United States District Court for the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

This is How It Is in TCPAland: Class Counsel Moves to Strike Defendant’s Consent Defense for Seeking One Week Extension to Redact...

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Lest anyone think TCPAland isn’t fraught with peril for unwary defendants, let me tell you a quick tale. Citibank is facing TCPA class litigation in the Northern District of California–yes the same Citibank that so...more

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Class Discovery Nightmare: Court Orders Defendant to Turn Itself Inside Out to Provide Account-Level Data in TCPA Class Action

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Hi everyone! Well, I’m sure you’ve heard the good news from the Czar by now, and we’re all very excited here at TCPAland. Boy what a celebration I had when I found out. I put the kids the bed, had a glass of champs with my...more

Jones Day

Privileges Against Self-Incrimination and Penalties to Impact Australian Class Action Strategy

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The Background: In a shareholder class action, the plaintiff sought discovery of documents from the defendant partnership in relation to alleged statutory contraventions associated with its role as auditor of a company that...more

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Not Proportional: Plaintiff’s Demand for TCPA Class Data that Did not Match Proposed Class Definition Denied by Magistrate Judge

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One of last year’s worst TCPA cases was Meredith v. United Collection Bureau, Inc., 2017 WL 1355696, at *2 (N.D.Ohio, 2017) where a magistrate compelled production of wrong number class data and forced a defendant to bear the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Bankrolling Class Actions: Court Rules That Plaintiff Must Identify Third-Party Funder Of Class Action Lawsuit

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The increasingly common practice of third-party funding of class actions, which provides tax incentives to plaintiffs’ attorneys and third-party funders alike, may no longer be protected under...more

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