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Three Motions for Sanctions Denied Under ESI Rule and Common Law

E-Discovery LLC

The Court pointed to several salient facts: “Curiously, Plaintiff testified at deposition that she had not even retained a lawyer until nearly one month after the call.” “But Roberts was fired the next day. The Court recited the key facts: “Plaintiff cites additional explicit text messages between herself and Mr. Roberts in her Complaint.” “At

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The “Best Time” to File a Spoliation Motion

E-Discovery LLC

She asserted that there was no “impact,” i.e., no prejudice, from the loss, pointing to the photographs and claiming that the prior recall was an admission that the extinguishers were defective. She argued that defendant could ask her in deposition how the missing extinguishers had been stored.

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Motion to Dismiss Filed by Judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

E-Discovery LLC

And when they do, the consequences can be stark – and potentially irreversible by the Executive’s own admission [in Abrego Garcia v. And if this suit succeeds, it will not be the last – and the next suit could name the [United States Court of Appeals for the] Fourth Circuit [1] and cause greater disruption still.

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Top 5 Tips: Taking Depositions in a Post-Pandemic World

Attorney at Work

While much of the world stopped last year, depositions didn’t. Cases forged ahead and lawyers scrambled to establish new ways of taking depositions and handling proceedings that, for decades, had been routine. But if you follow these five tips, you’ll be ready to handle any deposition that comes your way in the post-pandemic world.

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Is a “Composite” Video Admissible and Can a Police Officer “Narrate” It at Trial? – Part 1 of 2

E-Discovery LLC

This first blog addresses the admissibility of a “composite” video prepared by the prosecution. Second , while the source materials “need not be introduced into evidence,” they must be “otherwise admissible.” An innocent bystander was fatally shot while she was with her husband on a hotel patio in Annapolis. 1003 and 1005.

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How to Set Up Remote International Depositions

Optima Juris

As the need for efficient evidence-gathering persists, adopting remote depositions has become a powerful and prevalent solution. Fortunately, with the right technology, there is almost no barrier to conducting this more practical and cost-effective type of deposition, especially internationally. Federal Rules of Evidence standards.

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Why Depositions Matter More

The Cloud Court Blog

“The deposition is the new trial.” – Jim Garrity, 10,000 Depositions Later podcast Jim Garrity, an employment attorney based in Florida, has produced scores of podcasts and published multiple books on the topic of depositions. And today, almost all testimony is in the form of deposition testimony for the reasons cited above.