Extract from Cassandre Coyer’s article “6 Takeaways From the Biggest E-discovery Cases in 2022”
It’s been another busy year for e-discovery.
As data privacy laws continue to expand, and forms of ESI keep evolving, e-discovery has only gotten more complicated. More recently, the challenges that emerging technologies have brought to the field reached the public eye when e-discovery blunders were central in two highly publicized cases: the Alex Jones and Jan.6 investigations.
During E-Discovery Day’s “The 7 Most Important E-Discovery Cases of 2022” webinar on Dec. 1, e-discovery experts discussed takeaways from some of the most important e-discovery case law rulings of the year, from the challenges that come with multiple ESI sources and video evidence to how to navigate proportionality.
1. Back It Up
The Fast v. GoDaddy.com case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, involving sex and disability discrimination claims regarding a terminated employee of defendant GoDaddy, was only one of this year’s examples of spoliation of multiple ESI sources.
