Hard Drive Productions, Inc. v. Doe, 2012 WL 90412 (E.D. Cal. July 11, 2012) In a mass copyright infringement suit, plaintiff served a subpoena on an internet service provider and got the identifying information for the account holder suspected of trading a copy of a movie via BitTorrent. The account holder was uncooperative with plaintiff’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Electronic Discovery’
No deposition of account holder allowed until he is named as defendant in BitTorrent copyright case
January 17th, 2012
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Court allows discovery of competitor’s keyword purchases
June 11th, 2011
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Scooter Store, Inc. v. Spinlife.com, LLC, 2011 WL 2160462 (S.D. Ohio June 1, 2011) The Scooter Store and a related company sued a competitor for trademark infringement and other causes of action for unfair competition based in part on the competitor’s purchase of keywords such as “scooter store” and “your scooter store” to trigger sponsored [...]
Court shifts half of cost of forensic search to producing party in ediscovery case
June 6th, 2011
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[This is a post by Jonathan Rogers. Jon is a licensed attorney in California, with a focus on technology and entertainment law. You can reach him by email at jon@jonarogers.com or follow him on Twitter at @jonarogers.] IWOI, LLC v. Monaco Coach Corporation, N.D. Ill. May 24, 2011 Plaintiff sued claiming breach of warranty and violations of certain [...]
Texas supreme court says identities of anonymous bloggers should not be disclosed
April 16th, 2011
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In re Does, — S.W.3d —, 2011 WL 1447544 (Texas, April 15, 2011) The issue of anonymity is a hot topic in internet law. The question of whether an internet user known only by an IP address or username or website name should be identified arises fairly often in the early stages of internet defamation [...]
Court says law firm did not eavesdrop on employee phone calls
April 7th, 2011
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Bowden v. Kirkland & Ellis, 2011 WL 1211555 (7th Cir. April 1, 2011) Two former employees of a law firm sued the firm for violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC 2510 et seq. and for violation of the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, 720 ILCS 5/14-2. The district court granted summary judgment in favor [...]
Stored Communications Act protects Yahoo email account from subpoena
October 20th, 2010
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Chasten v. Franklin, 2010 WL 4065606 (N.D.Cal. October 14, 2010) Plaintiff sued some corrections officers at the prison where her inmate son was killed. She learned in a deposition that one of the defendants had a Yahoo email account. So she sent a subpoena to Yahoo seeking all the email messages sent from that account [...]
My law firm’s newest blog: Practical Ediscovery
February 19th, 2009
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Please take a moment to visit Practical Ediscovery, a new blog written by a team of attorneys at my law firm, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP. I’ve already contributed one post, and plan on generating as much content for the blog as I reasonably can. The focus of the blog is, as its name suggests, practical [...]
Expedited electronic discovery includes subpoena to ISP and imaging of defendants’ hard drives
October 24th, 2008
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Allcare Dental Management, LLC v. Zrinyi, No. 08-407, 2008 WL 4649131 (D. Idaho October 20, 2008) Plaintiffs filed a defamation lawsuit against some known defendants as well as some anonymous John Doe defendants in federal court over statements posted to Complaintsboard.com. The plaintiffs did not know the names or contact information of the Doe defendants, [...]
