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January’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery

[Editor’s Note: This article was first published January 17, 2024 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of...more

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More Privacy, Please - May 2022

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Editor’s Note: Connecticut became the fifth state in the nation to successfully pass a comprehensive privacy bill (now awaiting its governor’s signature), following California, Colorado, Utah, and Virginia. Meanwhile,...more

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Litigation Minute: Subpoenas and the Stored Communications Act

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS - "Our business runs an electronic communication system and we got a subpoena for something that one of our users stores on our system. Can't we just produce it?" STOP! The content...more

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Case Law Summary: Can You Use Slack for Business Communications If You Can’t Produce Slack Messages in Discovery?

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Which comes first: the chicken or the egg? Oh, sorry, wrong question. Which comes first: the business communication platform or the ability to preserve, collect, and produce communications from that platform during...more

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The Tech Factor: Special eDiscovery Considerations for the Tech Sector

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Many questions arise during the discovery process: What type of data do parties need to preserve? How should they obtain, review, and disclose it? Are third-party subpoenas necessary? These are just a few things parties need...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

The CLOUD Act: Where International Data Privacy and Law Enforcement Collide

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (the CLOUD Act), a United States federal law, will be celebrating its two-year anniversary on March 23, 2020. It was effectively, and primarily, an amendment to the Stored...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Unreviewed Preservation Requests Likely to Continue

The Ninth Circuit recently heard an appeal that challenges a common tool of law enforcement: “f” letters. Under section 2703(f) of the Stored Communications Act, law enforcement may compel providers of “electronic...more

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Actual Impact of 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act Still Hazy

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Over a year following enactment of the U.S. “Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data” or CLOUD Act, significant questions remain unanswered about the law and its potential impact on global investigations involving cloud stored...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

After a Year on the Books, DOJ Releases White Paper on CLOUD Act

In its first official statement about the CLOUD Act – the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act – the U.S. Department of Justice has published a white paper, “Promoting Public Safety, Privacy and the Rule of Law Around...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

How Social Media, Technology and Privacy Laws Are Changing the E-Discovery Landscape

Historically focused on manually wading through large volumes of email and electronic documents, e-discovery is transforming in nuanced ways. Discovery of mobile devices, social media and other online applications raises...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

New Utah Privacy Law Expands Warrant Requirement for Individuals’ Data Held by Electronic Communications Service Providers

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On March 27, 2019, Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed HB 57, a bill designed to increase privacy protections by requiring law enforcement to obtain a search warrant before being able to access a person’s data held by...more

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The Supreme Court - March 20, 2019

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions this morning: Frank v. Gaos, No. 17-961: Respondent Paloma Gaos and two other named plaintiffs brought a class action against Google. According to the complaint,...more

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Weekly Trends Report – 2/13/2019 Insights

Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t...more

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Demystifying the U.S. CLOUD Act - Assessing the law’s compatibility with international norms and the GDPR

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Hogan Lovells has published Demystifying the U.S. CLOUD Act, a detailed analysis of the impact of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) on non-U.S. businesses and individuals who use cloud storage...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Foreign Companies: Does the U.S. Government Now Have Access to Your Overseas Data?

The United States government has a powerful new tool to gain access to data stored overseas – the CLOUD Act, which was enacted this spring. If you are a company based overseas, particularly if you use a cloud service provider...more

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The CLOUD Act and the Warrant Canaries That (Sometimes) Live There

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The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (Pub. L. No. 115-141 (2018), or the CLOUD Act, was enacted in the U.S. on March 23, 2018, in response to difficulties U.S. law enforcement agencies (LEAs) had when attempting to...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Ninth Circuit Gives Google Reprieve to Resolve Overseas Warrant Dispute

A federal appeals court is giving Google and the Justice Department more time to work out their differences in a standoff over whether the tech giant must hand over customer emails stored outside of the United States....more

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US v. Microsoft Litigation Update: Supreme Court Dismisses Case as Moot After Congress Amends Stored Communications Act

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In January, I wrote a blog about the landmark case of United States v. Microsoft Corp. pending before the United States Supreme Court. You can read that blog here. The issue before the Court was whether a United States-based...more

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The CLOUD Act's Dramatic Impact on International Privacy Laws

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Just when the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, was about to go into effect, the United States Congress created the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Overseas Use of Data). Without any public hearings,...more

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Congress Enacts the CLOUD Act, Granting Law Enforcement Access to Information Stored Abroad, and Mooting U.S. v. Microsoft

On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, which contained a section entitled the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act. The CLOUD Act significantly revises the...more

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The CLOUD Act: Where It Sheds Light and Where Shadows Remain

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The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and moots the Supreme Court's consideration of a dispute between the U.S. government and Microsoft over whether Microsoft...more

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Offer Wi-Fi or Internet Service to Customers? These Are Your New Legal Obligations

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It would be unusual these days to find a hotel, coffee shop, cruise line or airline that doesn’t offer some form of internet access to its customers. It’s unlikely, however, that those businesses have had occasion to give...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Congress Reshapes Legal Requirements for International Access to Communications Information with the CLOUD Act

On April 17, 2018, at the request of both sides of United States v. Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Supreme Court remanded and dismissed one of the most closely watched privacy cases of the last several years just a few weeks after...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Supreme Court Rules Microsoft Case Moot as CLOUD Act Becomes Law

The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) was recently signed into law as part of the omnibus appropriations bill. ...more

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CLOUD Act dramatically changes international privacy laws (and eDiscovery)!

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Without any public hearings, review, or public comment Congress created the CLOUD Act which was signed into law as part of the $1.3 trillion government spending bill which changed the 1986 Stored Communications Act (SCA). The...more

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