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Court Compels Production of Relevant Content from Social Networking Sites

EEOC v. Simply Storage Mgmt., LLC, No. 1:09-cv-1223-WTL-DML (S.D. Ind. May 11, 2010)

The EEOC, on behalf of two claimants, filed claims alleging sexual harassment. In the course of discovery, defendant sought production of claimants’ internet social networking site (“SNS”) profiles and other communications from claimants’ Facebook and MySpace.com accounts. Plaintiff resisted. Following its discussion of the “General Principles Applicable to Discovery of SNS” and the proper scope of discovery in the present case, the court determined that certain content was relevant and ordered plaintiff to produce the relevant information, subject to the guidelines identified by the court.

Limited Discovery of Facebook Allowed in Harassment Case

t is a fair bet that many of those reading The Legal Intelligencer have neither a Facebook page nor a MySpace account -- although when our children reach a certain age, they can certainly tell us about them. But electronic discovery is well upon us, and employment litigation is at the forefront of issues involving social networking sites.

CHICAGO FINALLY WAKE UP TO E-DISCOVERY

PHASE ONE - IMPLEMENTATION AND EVALUATION
(OCTOBER 1, 2009 - MAY 1, 2010)

At the September 16, 2009 meeting of the Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Committee, at which the Principles were voted on and approved for implementation during Phase One of the Pilot Program, the Survey sub-committee was created and Joanne McMahon, Governmental Compliance Leader at General Electric, and Natalie J. Spears of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP agreed to be the sub-committee’s co-chairs.

Judge Scheindlin's Latest Primer on E-Discovery

Anyone not living in a cave for the last two months has heard of Judge Scheindlin's most recent foray into the world of e-discovery, with her 87-page decision in Pension Committee of the University of Montreal Pension Plan v. Banc of America Securities LLC, Civil Action No. 05-9016-SAS (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 15, 2010), subtitled as Zubulake Revisted: Six Years Later.

Step 7 for Legal Holds: Monitor and Remove

This is the seventh installment in a series of articles aimed at helping organizations implement an effective written litigation hold. This article covers monitoring and removing the legal hold.

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Court Compels Production of Relevant Content from Social Networking Sites

Limited Discovery of Facebook Allowed in Harassment Case

CHICAGO FINALLY WAKE UP TO E-DISCOVERY

Judge Scheindlin's Latest Primer on E-Discovery

Step 7 for Legal Holds: Monitor and Remove