Exam 12: Evolving Issues in E-Discovery

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Sanctions may include monetary penalties,or an instruction to the jury that they may infer that the destroyed documents would have been favorable to the opposing party.

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______________ is the destruction of evidence pertaining to litigation.

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Spoilation

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Destruction of records when the party knows of litigation related to those documents is called:

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A litigation hold is a requirement that once a case is filed or where the party knows or has reason to know that litigation may be brought,a duty exists to preserve evidence.

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What is spoilation? How may an attorney advise a client to prevent claims of spoilation?

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gross negligence
Weighing the cost against the benefits of preserving and obtaining evidence.
record retention
An extreme level of carelessness.
litigation hold
A process whereby a company or individual determines that an unresolved dispute may result in litigation and, as a result, documents should not be destroyed or altered.
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gross negligence
Weighing the cost against the benefits of preserving and obtaining evidence.
record retention
An extreme level of carelessness.
litigation hold
A process whereby a company or individual determines that an unresolved dispute may result in litigation and, as a result, documents should not be destroyed or altered.
retention policy
Destruction of records that may be relevant to ongoing or anticipated litigation, government investigation, or audit.
spoliation
Discovery of documents created, disseminated, and stored via electronic means.
proportionality
Punishment ordered by a judge for violating a court order, or court rules.
sanctions
the discovery of electronic information
e-discovery
Keeping documents and electronically stored information for a period of time.
adverse inference
revised for the first time in 2006 to address e-discovery
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
allows the jury to infer that the evidence would have been damaging
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Spoilation of evidence is punishable by court imposed sanctions against the party who destroyed the evidence.

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Judge Shira Scheindlin in the widely-reported Zubulake case addressed the issues associated with electronically stored information (ESI)in discovery.

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_____________ refers to the discovery of documents created,disseminated,and stored via electronic means.

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The duty to preserve evidence dictates that once litigation is received,evidence must be ________.

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The opinions in Zubulake

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When considering their client's duty to preserve evidence,it is usually better for the legal team to

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E-discovery refers to the discovery of documents created,disseminated,and stored via electronic means.

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The term ADR refers to the destruction of evidence pertaining to litigation.

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In e-discovery:

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Electro Tech has advised Kate that they just received a letter from attorneys representing a competitor,Synchromotive,Inc.,alleging that a device manufactured by Electro Tech,the Accelerex,infringes on a patent held by Synchromotive for a similar device,called a Speedex.They will sue if Electro Tech does not immediately stop producing the Accelerex.What action should Kate take at this time regarding Electro Tech's electronically stored information?

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More businesses are adopting retention policies for electronic data,which govern how long this information is retained.

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___________ may include monetary penalties,or an instruction to the jury that they may infer that the destroyed documents would have been favorable to the opposing party.

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Spoliation includes

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