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Party’s Motion to Quash Subpoena Denied for Lack of Standing

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1, 2025), states: Defendants oppose the non-party subpoenas on undue burden and relevance grounds. But a “party lacks standing to challenge subpoenas issued to non-parties on the grounds of relevancy or undue burden.” Standing is often an issue in challenges to subpoenas. “It 27, 2024); Who Can Object to a Subpoena? (Nov.

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

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It appears from the docket that on July 21, 2025, Genesh filed an objection to the Magistrate Judge’s order on this issue. 45 in connection with a subpoena for LZ’s protected school records. Plaintiff asserted that Genesh “obtained her school records via a subpoena issued in violation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 45(a)(4).

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Based on the ESI Protocol, the Limiting “Apex Deposition” Doctrine Applied to Objections to the Designation of a Document Custodian

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Once that was done, the requesting party could identify three more, “subject to limited objections.” 45 subpoena duces tecum could not have been served on the non-party document custodian and avoided the designation issue. The ESI Protocol required that the responding party designate ten document custodians. 2025 WL 176001, at n.

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Initial Disclosures Cannot Await Expert Opinions

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Lang, Ruling in Blake Lively’s Subpoena for Justin Baldoni Phone Records (Feb. In her answers to interrogatories, “Lively objected on a number of grounds including that the interrogatory prematurely sought information that was properly the subject of expert testimony and was an improper contention interrogatory….” 14, 2025); E.

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No Sanctions for Breach of Duty to Preserve Video, Due to Lack of Prejudice

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The notice component is a low, objective standard “that asks not whether the party in fact reasonably foresaw litigation, but whether a reasonable party in the same factual circumstances would have reasonably foreseen litigation.” In other words, the trigger analysis is objective, not subjective. Procedural flaws are not unusual.

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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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Do You Know About the “Touhy” Regulations?

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17, 2025), applies the “ Touhy ” Regulations to a federal subpoena directed to a government contractor. It held that the government’s confidentiality objections could be addressed by a protective order. 2025 WL 202303 (S.D. The MVM court permitted supplemental briefs and scheduled a hearing for July 31 st.