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eDiscovery Assistant
Website: ediscoveryassistant.com
eDiscovery Assistant, associated with Minerva26, is a specialized publisher focusing on legal technology and electronic discovery (eDiscovery) issues. It provides case law updates, practical resources, and strategic guidance for legal professionals handling electronically stored information (ESI) in litigation. The content covers topics such as preservation obligations, discovery protocols, handling of modern digital evidence like hyperlinked files and chat logs, and compliance with privacy and data protection laws. The publisher aims to support litigators and legal teams in navigating complex eDiscovery challenges by connecting case law, rules, and real-world workflows to facilitate defensible and cost-effective discovery practices.
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When Prompts Show Intent for Punitive Damages
A Southern District of Florida magistrate judge held that a defamation defendant’s AI prompts and outputs are discoverable because they may show the specific intent to harm that removes Florida’s…
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The Discovery Timing Trap: What FTC v. Uber Teaches About Getting Structured Data Late in Discovery
A Northern District of California court agreed that transaction-level data the FTC wanted from Uber was relevant, then denied the motion to compel because it came six weeks before the…
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When Your Client’s ChatGPT History Proves Intent for Sanctions
A federal court in Michigan read a former sales rep’s ChatGPT questions about whether Yahoo could recover his deleted emails under a subpoena, found that he intended to deprive his…
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Why Signal Is the Most Dangerous Source of ESI You Need to Understand
A Delaware Chancery ruling sanctions WWE’s leadership for manually shortening Signal’s auto-delete settings after receiving two separate written litigation holds telling them not to, and it applies a standard most…
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The AI Company Is the Evidence Now: What Britannica v. Perplexity Teaches About RAG and UAL Discovery
This week’s case teaches litigators and discovery professionals how AI works, and what they need to know to ask for the discovery of AI generated evidence. A Southern District of…
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Disney v. Midjourney: When the Gen AI Output Is the Evidence
Two stipulated orders in the biggest generative AI copyright case in the country set out how to produce subscriber prompts and the images and video they generated: a sample of…
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Why Agreeing on Short Message Data Context is Critical
A Northern District of Indiana court just built a second formula for giving context to short Microsoft Teams messages, a three-day calendar window borrowed from an unrelated case, because neither…
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You Can’t Compel What You Didn’t Negotiate: Schulte v. LinkedIn and the Limits of AI Transparency in Discovery
A Northern District of California court just denied a bid to force disclosure of how LinkedIn used generative AI to review documents — the contested mirror image of last week’s…
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Inside the First Stipulated AI Review Protocol: James v. Cerebras Systems
An analysis of the Northern District of California’s July 2026 stipulated ESI protocol and companion protective order — the first I’ve seen to govern generative AI as its own category…
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Your Protective Order Wasn’t Written for ChatGPT
A Texas business court held that a company executive’s ChatGPT conversations about his own case are protected work product — then ordered him to identify every produced document he fed…