Plaintiffs needn’t pay for per-item email review 
E-discovery request was for millions of documents
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Published: July 13, 2012
Tags: Federal Courts, Judge James P. Jones
A natural gas company facing a potential class claim from royalty owners can’t make the plaintiffs pay for per-document privilege review of millions of employee emails, an Abingdon U.S. District Court said last month.
The increased burden to produce electronically stored information, or ESI, and “complicated and contentious issues” made this case typical of some modern ...
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