For Discovery Violations, Court Orders Retention of Outside Vendor to Collect Responsive Documents, Investigate Possible Spoliation : Electronic Discovery Law n this case, the court concluded that Defendant failed to comply with its discovery obligations by 1) failing to conduct a reasonably diligent search, 2) improperly withholding responsive documents, and 3) failing to take adequate steps to ensure preservation. Accordingly, the court ordered that an outside vendor be retained to search for and collect Defendant’s responsive documents and to determine if any documents had been permanently deleted, at Defendant’s expense. The court also ordered monetary sanctions. http://bit.ly/SNQQEx Source: http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2012/11/articles/case-summaries/for-discovery-violations-court-orders-retention-of-outside-vendor-to-collect-responsive-documents-investigate-possible-spoliation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ediscoverylaw/klgates+(Electronic+Discovery+Law) See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/SNQQEx+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]