Johnson v. Italian Shoemakers, Inc. No. 3:17-cv-00740-FDW-DSC (W.D.N.C. Oct. 22, 2018) In this opinion, the district court reviewed the magistrate’s recommendations and imposed monetary sanctions for the plaintiffs’ discovery failures. Specifically, the plaintiffs...
MetLife Inv’rs. USA Ins. Co. v. Lindsey No. 2:16-CV-97 (N.D. Ind. Oct. 25, 2018) In this case seeking rescission of a life insurance policy, the court granted the defendants’ motion to compel. It ordered the plaintiff to produce native-format files rather than PDFs....
McDonnel Grp., LLC v. Starr Surplus Lines Ins. Co. No. 18-1380 (E.D. La. Oct. 3, 2018) In this insurance dispute, the court granted the defendants’ motion to compel production of construction schedules in their native format. This dispute arose out of work that the...
In re Syngenta AG Mir 162 Corn Litig., No. 16-2788-JWL (D. Kan. Sept. 25, 2018). In this multi-district litigation, the court denied a party’s request to produce electronically stored information (ESI) in its native format. The underlying litigation in this case...
City of San Jose v. JUM Global, LLC, No. 16-cv-01462-VKD (N.D. Cal. July 11, 2018). In this breach of contract case, the court granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel. It ordered the defendant to supplement its responses and to re-produce emails in native format.This...
Baker v. Santa Clara Univ. In this employment discrimination case, the court admonished both litigants for violating the rules of discovery. Ultimately, the court denied the plaintiff’s request for native format re-production because she offered no “compelling reason”...
In this fraudulent inducement claim, the magistrate considered the permissible scope of discovery for the parties’ cross-motions to compel.