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Court’s Use of a Special Master to Assist EEOC in Obtaining Discovery from Defendant

E-Discovery LLC

18, 2025) (“ Genesh IV ”), after several rulings adverse to Genesh, the court appointed a Special Master to facilitate the plaintiff EEOC’s discovery from the defendant , Genesh, Inc. A substantial amount of discovery took place before Ms. 45 in connection with a subpoena for LZ’s protected school records. Genesh, Inc.,

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What is the Stored Communications Act? Understanding the SCA & Subpoena Compliance

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But with digital transformation comes legal complexity–especially when responding to subpoenas for electronic communications. Failure to comply with the SCA when responding to subpoenas can lead to significant legal and financial repercussions, reputational damage, and even loss of customer trust. the actual text of an email).

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Possession, Custody, or Control of Responsive Information by States Suing Meta

E-Discovery LLC

34 discovery requests propounded by defendant Meta Platforms, Inc., 34 discovery requests propounded by defendant Meta Platforms, Inc., Meta responded that Rule 34 requests were proper and it should not be forced to serve over 200 subpoenas under Rule 45. 2024), applies the “legal control” standard to Fed.R.Civ.P.

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Court Declines To Compel Employer To Produce Data from Employees’ Personal Mobile Devices

Discovery Advocate

Relying on an employee’s memory without an accompanying thorough discussion – informed by potentially relevant technical considerations of where data may reside and a more robust effort to locate it – is unlikely to constitute a “reasonable search” for purposes of defending a response to a request for non-objectionable discovery.

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Court Declines To Compel Employer To Produce Data from Employees’ Personal Mobile Devices

Discovery Advocate

Relying on an employee’s memory without an accompanying thorough discussion – informed by potentially relevant technical considerations of where data may reside and a more robust effort to locate it – is unlikely to constitute a “reasonable search” for purposes of defending a response to a request for non-objectionable discovery.

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Waiver of Untimely Objections to Interrogatories: Is it = or ≠ to Requests for Production of Documents?

E-Discovery LLC

21, 2025), the court wrote that: Neither side distinguishes between waiver of untimely objections to interrogatories and waiver of untimely objections to RFPs, even though important differences exist in both the applicable rules of civil procedure and the case law construing them. 8A Charles Alan Wright, Arthur R. 2d 803, 808 (4th Cir.1958)