Court Rejects Cost Shifting Since Moving Party Failed to Meet and Confer in Good Faith; Cost Estimate and Conclusory Characterizations of ESI as "Inaccessible" Insufficient Under Rule 26(b)(2)
Mikron Ind., Inc. v. Hurd Windows & Doors, Inc., 2008 WL 1805727 (W.D. Wash. Apr. 21, 2008)
In this decision, District Judge Robert S. Lasnik denied defendants’ motion for a protective order which asked the court to shift the costs of producing ESI to the plaintiff. Relying on Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(2), defendants argued that searching through their ESI would generate substantial costs and yield cumulative results.
Finding that defendants failed to discharge their meet and confer obligation in good faith, as required by Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(c), the court denied the motion on that basis. The co...
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Electronic Discovery Law - April 24, 2008 Tags: Case Summaries
New Book: Labour and Employment Law in the Federal Public Service
Labour and Employment Law in the Federal Public Service by Christopher Rootham. (KN190 R66 2007)
Describes the labour and employment laws governing employees of Parliament, government agencies, members of the RCMP, and most direct employees of the government (excluding members of the Canadian armed forces, judges, and employees of Crown corporations).
Available in Vancouver, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nanaimo, New Westminster, Prince George and Victoria.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - April 24, 2008
Welcome to the ROFLdome
ROFLCon, the greatest gathering of Internet celebrities and memes seen this side of the kitteh-osphere, LOLifies Cambridge tomorrow and Saturday, April 25-26, at MIT and other venues in the area. The Mozilla Firefox, the TripAdvisor Owl, and hundreds of others will probe the hows and whys of Net culture and contemplate its future.read more
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Berkman Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: ashar
Is Privacy an Illusion? Jonathan Zittrain Weighs in...
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Berkman Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: syoung
On A Scale of 1 to 10...
David Weinberger, who has been teaching The Web Difference at HLS this semester with John Palfrey, tells us,
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Berkman Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: rtabasky
"Bureau of Justice Statistics - HIV in Prisons, 2006 and Medical Problems of Prisoners"
Posted by Sabrina Pacifici: News release: "Between 2005 and 2006 the number of state and federal prisoners who were...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: E-Government
"The Search for Better E-Discovery Tools"
Posted by Genie Tyburski: This article outlines technologies for improving on the use of keyword and Boolean queries for electronic...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: E-Discovery
"Writing Consultants for Law Firms"
From the blog: Thanks to the Legal Writing Prof Blog for mentioning this article about how law firms are using...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Legal Writing
"More Law Firms Offering Programs for Elder Care"
In the news: A small but growing number of law firms, concerned that attorneys and staff are torn between family...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"Who is in Charge of Client Satisfaction at Your Firm?"
Posted By Tom Kane: Naturally, one might think every lawyer is responsible, or maybe the managing partner if it has...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"A Lawyer's Duty: Control the Client at Depositions"
Posted by Evan Schaeffer: Do lawyers have a duty to control their clients during depositions? Take a look at this...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Tips
"Give Your Staff Friday Afternoon Off"
Posted by David Swanner: I got this idea from Cheryl Leone in Raleigh. At the beginning of April, we started...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"Well Buy You Lunch If
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From the blog: I was reading about an interesting policy at a fairly progressive technology company based in a major...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
Democracy to Blame for High Incarceration Rate?
The United States leads the world in the number of its citizens who occupy its prisons. We have 2.3 million inmates, .7 million more than China, which has four times our population. Among adults, one in one hundred Americans is imprisoned. While the high rate of incarceration has led to a decrease in the crime rate, there are those who question the extent of its impact.
Interestingly, as an article in The New York Times for April 23 points out, one explanation for sentences that the rest of the world regards as disproportionate may lie in the fact that we are a democracy. Since, unlike j...
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novalawcity - April 24, 2008 Author: Deborah McGovern
American Lawyer Blog
New from American Lawyer is the AmLaw Daily blog, with a focus on practice and law firm news. Tip to LawBeat
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novalawcity - April 24, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
Supreme Court Inc.
Interesting article from the New York Times Magazine: "How the nation’s highest court became increasingly receptive to the arguments of American business." Check it out! [RJ]
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Law Librarian Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: News
2008 Law School Summer Boot Camp for Students of Color
The Summer Boot Camp is an online distance learning program designed to provide that intense preparation for law students of color. The Boot Camp teachs students to study effectively for law school, introduces students to the writing, thinking and test-taking...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Law School News & Views
Professional Reading: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic
Alison Lacroix (Chicago) has posted The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic in SSRN. Here's the abstract: The years between 1787 and 1802 witnessed a transformation in American federal theory: from the...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Professional Readings
Monitoring and Managing Corporate Reputations Online
Interesting post from Mashable: Andy Beal, co-author of Radically Transparent: Monitoring and Managing Reputations Online (book information below the fold) and CEO of online reputation monitoring tool Trackur, outlines ten tactics that could prevent your company suffering its own online...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology
NISO's A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has issued SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (pdf) as part of its Recommended Practice series (NISO-RP-7-2008). The SERU document codifies best practices and offers publishers and librarians the opportunity to save both the...
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Law Librarian Blog - April 24, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Electronic Resource
