Tag: preservation of evidence

NY Court Adopts Federal Standard for Destruction of E-Mails

Post author By Oscar Michelen
Post date February 1, 2012
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For the first time in a NY state court case, an Appellate Division court has adopted the standard set forth in 2003 in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC, which set forth guidelines when a party can be punished for the destruction of emails. The NY case, Voom HD Holdings v. EchoStar Satellite LLC, involved a […]

Tags business litigation, e-discovery, emails, ESI, Federal Litigation, intellectual property, Litigation, preservation of evidence, Voom v. Echo Star, Zubulake

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More Reasons for Litigants Not to Delete Info

Post author By Oscar Michelen
Post date May 3, 2011
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I previously wrote about how Federal courts are hitting litigants hard for getting rid of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) (“Kings of E-Storage Fined for Losing Emails, August 2010), well know State courts have jumped on the bandwagon and have started to set a trend as to the penalties they will impose for destruction of ESI. […]

Tags discovery, e-discovery, electronically stored information, ESI, lawsuits, Litigation, penalties for destruction of evidence, preservation of evidence, spoiliation, spolation, spoliation of evidence