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Discovery
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Chicago IP Litigation
Confidentiality Provision Does Not Prevent Production
Judge St. Eve granted plaintiff/counter-defendant Morningware's motion to compel production from third party SKE in this patent and Lanham Act suit regarding convection ovens. SKE had an agreement with defendant/counter-plaintiff…
Federal Securities Law Source
Discovery Issues in the Parallel Rajat Gupta Cases – Judge Rakoff Directs SEC To Turn Over Witness Interview Materials From the Investigation to Prosecutors For Review Under Brady and Potential Disclosure to Defendant
On March 26, 2012, Judge Jed Rakoff issued an Opinion and Order in the two related cases against Rajat Gupta, granting in part a Motion to Compel and ordering the…
Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Can “Consulting” Experts Have To Testify In Certain Circumstances?
By Shaun Marker
The role that experts serve in first-party property claims is an important and vital one. Engineers and damage consultants are often needed to establish the extent of damages repair protocols.…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
The Department of Justice and the Culture of Non-Disclosure
By Ellen Podgor
We don't need new legislation insuring that defendants receive the exculpatory information they are entitled to under the U.S. Constitution, because the DOJ has learned its lesson from the Ted…
Technology Law Dispatch
Sedona Conference® International Principles on Discovery, Disclosure & Data Protection – a new set of “Three Ps” for litigants and data privacy practitioners to apply in the real world
This post was written by Nick Tyler. Last month we highlighted a resolution of the American Bar Association urging U.S. courts to: “consider and respect…the data protection and privacy laws of…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The Constituton Project calls upon Congress to reform federal criminal discovery
Main March 8, 2012The Constituton Project calls upon Congress to reform federal criminal discoveryI received today via e-mail a link to this new lengthy statement coming from a panel of…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Times Endorses Open Discovery
By Ellen Podgor
In its lead editorial yesterday, entitled "Justice and Open Files," the New York Times proposed an "open files policy" for criminal discovery (see here). It based its reasoning largely on…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Pilot Program Introduces Protocols for Employment Cases
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
"A pilot program for the federal district courts introduces new pretrial procedures for certain types of federal employment cases, encouraging more efficient and less costly discovery."The story is reported in The…
Legal Profession Blog
Attorney Charged With Putting Discovery Video On YouTube
The Illinois Administrator has filed a complaint alleging misconduct by an attorney who represented a drug defendant.The complaint states that the attorney received a video of the undercover drug purchase in discovery. He…
Drug & Device Law
To Linsanity and Beyond (to the Tierney case)
Some of us on this blog have rooting interests that lie far from where The Schuylkill and The Delaware meet. They’re up past the New Jersey Turnpike, all the way…