Courts consider when cost-shifting is appropriate

Boehning and Toal emphasizes the civil procedure's acknowledgment of the role of electronic information in contemporary legal disputes. The uneasy process of adapting rules written in the era of typewriters and mimeographs to a world of e-mail and metadata has been replaced by new task: determi...

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Published in:The National Law Journal 2007-08, Vol.29 (51), p.S3
Main Authors: Boehning, H Christopher, Toal, Daniel J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil procedure
Cost shifting
Information systems
Litigation
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Summary:Boehning and Toal emphasizes the civil procedure's acknowledgment of the role of electronic information in contemporary legal disputes. The uneasy process of adapting rules written in the era of typewriters and mimeographs to a world of e-mail and metadata has been replaced by new task: determining how the recent amendments have--and have not--altered the existing legal landscape concerning electronic discovery. They refer the Peskoff v Faber wherein it provides an early look at how the process of integrating the new federal rules into the prior e-discovery framework is proceeding.
ISSN:2163-8756