In the case In re Sandisk SSDs Litig., California Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros granted Plaintiffs’ Motion to Reopen Depositions, allowing Plaintiffs to reopen three depositions of Defendants' employees due to Defendants' belated production of documents that Defendants had previously designated as privileged, but limited the reopened depositions “to questions pertaining to documents produced after the original deposition, questions pertaining to testimony from other witnesses' reopen...| eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin
My favourite aunt in law married a card carrying conservative guy. He is, like many of them, a wonderfully nice person when you’re a member of the in group and I actually do like him as a per…| Affinity
Golat v. Wisconsin State Court System, 2025 WL 2390556 (W.D. Wisc. Aug. 18, 2025), involved a motion to compel that was not prompt, not ripe, and not complete. The court wrote: Parties must allow a reasonable amount of time for the other side to address alleged discovery deficiencies. Waiting until the last […]| E-Discovery LLC
The standard for reopening completed depositions to address after-produced documents was explained in In re Sandisk SSDs Litigation, 2025 WL 2304805 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 11, 2025). The court stated that: “Plaintiffs move to reopen fact discovery to reopen three depositions of Defendants’ employees in light of Defendants’ belated production of documents that […]| E-Discovery LLC
In Equal Emp. Opportunity Comm'n v. Genesh, Inc., No. 24-2445-DDC-ADM (D. Kans. Jul. 18, 2025) (“Genesh IV”), after several rulings adverse to Genesh, the court appointed a Special Master to facilitate the plaintiff EEOC’s discovery from the defendant, Genesh, Inc. THE UNDERLYING CLAIMS “Genesh II| E-Discovery LLC
Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC, 2025 WL 1591282 (S.D.N.Y. June 5, 2025), is another in a series of discovery decisions in the dispute involving Ms. Blake Lively and Mr. Justin Baldoni, among many others. See, e.g., “It Ends With Us” (Apr. 8, 2025); Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC, 2025 WL 1397047 (S| E-Discovery LLC
Comfort vs Need by Tom Geraghty What do we do when the things that help some people in the team feel psychologically safer don’t work for everyone? Perhaps one person says they need time away from the main meeting group […]| Psych Safety
Source: Penny Rabiger – The Wishing Tree at Green Man Festival Every time I open an edition of Schools Week I sigh, knowing that I will always find what is always there to behold. This week, …| tenpencemore
A personal reckoning with a family’s legacy of white privilege| Jed Riffe Films
In Singleton v. Mazhari, 2024 WL 4644644 (D. Md. Oct. 30, 2024)(Austin, J.), non-party TEDCO’s blanket privilege and work product objections to a subpoena were denied; however, it lived to fight another day because the denial was without prejudice to file supported objections after a “meet and confe| E-Discovery LLC
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In U.S. ex rel. Zafirov v. Physician Partners, LLC, 2024 WL 2846007 (M.D. Fla. June 2, 2024), the court held that a categorical privilege log was insufficient, even after an apparent agreement to that logging process. The role of a privilege log is to “trust, but verify.” In other words, “play,| E-Discovery LLC
Many decisions state that the failure to timely provide an adequate privilege log may result in a waiver of the privilege. However, frequently they hold that there is no waiver on the facts presented.[1] In Bautech USA, Inc. v. Resolve Equip., Inc., 2024 WL 1929486 (S.D. Fla. May 2, 2024), untim| E-Discovery LLC
In the recent debates over the report of the Standards and Privileges committee on the Owen Paterson case frequent reference has been made to the House of Commons’ foundational resolution of 2 May 1695 on lobbying. The resolution runs as follows: That the Offer of any Money, or other Advantage, to any Member of Parliament,… Continue reading Paid advocacy in the House of Commons and the Resolution of 2 May 1695→| Reformation to Referendum: Writing a New History of Parliament
The third of a series of blogs on parliamentary privilege and libel, this one deals with the notorious case of Stockdale v. Hansard| Reformation to Referendum: Writing a New History of Parliament
This is a series of three blogs about Parliament and Libel. The first, Privilege, Libel and the long road to Stockdale v. Hansard, Part I: from Strode’s Case to Article IX, dealt with the earliest …| Reformation to Referendum: Writing a New History of Parliament
In 1836 the House of Commons published a series of reports of the new prison inspectors appointed under an Act of Parliament passed the year before. Their shocked claim that a pornographic book had…| Reformation to Referendum: Writing a New History of Parliament
In Kyle Rayome v. ABT Electronics, 2024 WL 1435098 (N.D. Ill. 2024), the court wrote that it “would prefer this case not go to the dark place where attorneys on one side demand that the attorneys on the other side provide declarations in which they swear they are telling the truth about complying wi| E-Discovery LLC
bizarrolord: socialjusticefail: eclecticcreative: socialjusticefail: eclecticcreative: So the conservative base has put it out there that a Social Justice Warrior is a hugely bad thing. But in history they are the people I love the most–sure they weren’t always perfect, but they are still the people who moved and shook the world to the core. Martin Luther King Junior Gandhi Sojourner Truth Nellie Bly MeToo Activists Yuji Ichioka Florence Nightingale Don’t you admire those who rose up ag...| Eclectic Creative
“ESI Protocols” are discussed in judicial opinions, articles, webinars, and blogs. They are flexible and useful; however, they may not meet all of the requirements of Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(f). After a Rule 26(f) conference, that Rule requires a “report” with a “discovery plan” that contains information| E-Discovery LLC
