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USA - March 15 2013
A federal court in California recently awarded defendants in a patent infringement case more than $2.8 million in attorneys' fees relating to the use…
USA - July 24 2012
In a decision that will surprise some, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently held in Chin v. Port Authority that the failure to issue a litigation hold is not gross negligence per se.
USA - June 12 2012
In a move likely to be greeted as much with criticism as relief, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently adopted a very limited set of amendments to the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure that are expressly designed to make the eDiscovery process less complicated than in the federal system.
USA - March 20 2012
In a ruling likely to disappoint corporate defendants, the Third Circuit recently reversed a lower court’s taxation of more than $365,000 in eDiscovery costs, finding that the district court’s reading of the underlying taxation statute was “untethered” from the statutory language.
USA - March 1 2012
Adopting a middle-of-the-road approach that may raise more questions than it answers, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that FDA approval of drug and medical device warnings creates a presumption against application of the discovery rule to a defendant’s otherwise-valid statute of limitations defense.
