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...
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”...