The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it obtained a preliminary injunction, asset freeze, and other emergency relief against Atlanta-based Drive Planning LLC and its founder and CEO, Russell Todd Burkhalter, to halt a $300 million…
Text Message Spoliation Leads to 37(e)(1) Sanctions: eDiscovery Case Law
In Maziar v. City of Atlanta, Georgia District Judge Steven D. Grimberg sustained in part and overruled in part the plaintiff’s objections to the Magistrate Judge’s order denying spoliation sanctions against the defendant, finding that the defendant’s text message spoliation
Episode 146: Spoliation Sanctions & Summary Judgment Denial: A Wake-Up Call for Mobile Device Preservation
In Episode 146, Kelly Twigger discusses how the failure to preserve text messages from a terminated employee’s supervisor led to sanctions and a denial of the employer’s motion for summary judgment, and the impact the decision has on government agencies’
Eleventh Circuit Holds that Grant Program for Black Women Business Owners is Discriminatory
The case is American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Fearless Fund Management (11th Cir. June 3, 2024)NPR, Grant Program for Black Women Business Owners is Discriminatory, Appeals Court RulesA U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital
Does Every Incident Require a Forensic Report?
Dear Mary,
We had a security incident a few weeks backs that luckily turned out to be nothing. I’ll tell you, tension was high around here while the investigation was ongoing because there was a possibility that it was going
Does Every Incident Require a Forensic Report?
Dear Mary,
We had a security incident a few weeks backs that luckily turned out to be nothing. I’ll tell you, tension was high around here while the investigation was ongoing because there was a possibility that it was going
2024 INTA Annual Conference Recap
Seyfarth Shaw’s Intellectual Property Group was out in full force at the recent International Trademark Association (INTA) annual conference in Atlanta on May 18-22, 2024. Fifteen Seyfarth attorneys, representing nine different Seyfarth offices, attended: Amy Abeloff (Los Angeles – Century
New York Statute of Limitations Runs from Medical Symptoms, not Diagnosis
(The Butler Snow members of the DDL blog had nothing to do with today’s post.)
Intricate issues of New York law have been in the news lately — but that has been about criminal law. By contrast, New York’s application
Parnell habeas corpus petitions are about to be heard by 11th Circuit panel of judges
The 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals was scheduled to hear that five-year habeas corpus motion from Stewart Parnell but pulled it back.
The second highest court in the land promises to re-assign the Stewart Parnell case shortly.
The Atlanta-based court
Legal Malpractice Statute Of Limitations At Issue
An argument before the Georgia Supreme Court scheduled for April 17TITSHAW et al. v. GEER et al. (S23G1124)Companies that operate Moe’s Southwest Grill restaurant franchises in Atlanta and Decatur and the companies’ majority owner are appealing lower courts’ rulings in