Brown v. Wal-Mart Store, Inc., No. 09-cv-03339-EJD, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71437 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 27, 2018). In this class action, the court sanctioned Wal-Mart for late disclosures. Specifically, Wal-Mart gave its experts a “staggering” amount of evidence that it had...
A primer on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, commonly referred to as the FRCP, govern how federal district courts conduct civil cases. (The rules for criminal cases are established in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.)...
Rembrandt Diagnostics, LP v. Innovacon, Inc., No. 3:16-cv-0698 CAB (NLS), 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164015 (S.D. Cal. Oct. 3, 2017). In this patent case, the court denied the plaintiff’s motion to compel in full. The court concluded that the defendant need not conduct an...
Oxbow Carbon & Minerals LLC v. Union Pac. R.R., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146211 (D.D.C. Sept. 11, 2017). In this multimillion-dollar antitrust claim, the defendants moved to compel the plaintiffs to include their CEO as a custodian and to produce all of his documents...
Mann v. City of Chicago, Nos. 15 CV 9197, 13 CV 4531, 2017 WL 3970592 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 8, 2017). In this consolidated wrongful detention case, the court granted the plaintiffs’ motion to compel in part, ordering the defendant to extend its email searches to seven...
In re State Farm Lloyds, No. 15-0903, 2017 BL 177212 (Tex. May 26, 2017). In this discovery dispute, the Texas Supreme Court “elucidate[d] the guiding principles” that govern discovery by concluding that its state rules align with the federal rules. Under both,...
Wagoner v. Lewis Gale Med. Ctr., LLC, No. 7:15cv570 (W.D. Va. July 13, 2016). In Wagoner v. Lewis Gale Med. Ctr., LLC, court held that the plaintiff’s “limited request” for discovery, “restricted by custodian, search terms, and time period,” was proportional to the...