Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 26

Late disclosure in violation of Rule 26(a)(1) leads to evidentiary exclusion

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300 GB Email Search Rejected in Ediscovery Case

CEO’s Documents Found Proportional to Multimillion-Dollar Complaint

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…

Court Rejects Discovery Burden to Allow Additional Custodians Search

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…

Texas Supreme Court Says ‘Proportionality Is the Polestar’ in Ediscovery

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…

A Self-Inflicted High Discovery Cost Does Not Render Information “Inaccessible”

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…